Valery Panyushkin, journalist and writer Aleksandr Kabakov, writer , economist , economist , political scientist , political scientist , political scientist , political scientist , economist , writer and journalist Chief editors Anton Nossik (1999) Vladislav Borodulin (1999 – 2005) Aleksandr Pisarev (2005 – 2006) Mikhail Mikhailin (January 2006 – July 2010) Mikhail Kotov (2010 – March 2013) Svetlana Lolaeva (March – September 2013) Svetlana Babaeva (2013 – July 2016) Olga Alekseeva (July 2016 – October 2019) Sergey Rybka (October 2019 – present day) Criticism In November 2013, social networks drew attention to the material “Navalny found terra incognita” about the publication by politician Alexei Navalny of information about the dacha cooperative “Sosny” (Pine trees), where a number of members of the “United Russia” party live. In it, the author of Gazeta.Ru complained about the inability to get through to opposition political scientists, which is why the article presented only the point of view of pro-government figures. In February 2015, the Los Angeles Times journalist Sergey Loiko, who covered the War in Donbass, published a correspondence with the deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta.Ru, . In it, the Russian media manager expressed physical threats, along the way accusing his colleague of working for the "bosses in the states". On March 31, 2015, the Anonymous International group posted for free download SMS correspondence for 2011–2014 of , Deputy Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Internal Policy. In one of the messages, the official addressed the top manager of Rambler, , and through him, the editor-in-chief of Gazeta.Ru Svetlana Babaeva with demands to urgently respond to criticism of the Olympic Games in Russia from Viktor Shenderovich. The next day Gazeta.Ru released an editorial beginning with the words "It's amazing how much the Internet prevents ordinary Russians from recklessly enjoying the Olympic Games”. The article discussed how unfairly bloggers criticize the Olympic Games in Sochi. In April 2016, Bloomberg News columnist Leonid Bershidsky called Gazeta.Ru a "pro-Putin media" acting in the interests of the Russian authorities. On November 23, 2020, Gazeta.Ru published an article containing a fake quote from Antony Blinken about Putin and the Russian people. Subsequently, based on the article, inaccurate information was reprinted by a number of other Russian media. On November 24, 2020, an article appeared in Gazeta.Ru stating that the West decided to replace Alexey Navalny with his wife Yulia. Gazeta.Ru named "german Abendlich