[3][4] The newspaper was shut down by the Soviet authorities following the occupation and annexation of Latvia by the USSR in 1940 with the last issue being released on 21 June 1940.
The editorial board tried to preserve the paper by renaming it to Russkaya Gazeta (Russian: Русская газета, lit.
After the removal of the chief editors and arrests of most of the contributors, the remnants of the paper became the Trudovaya Gazeta (Russian: Трудовая газета, lit.
Ultimately, it also was banned on November 9 and merged into the newly established newspaper Proletarskaya Pravda (Russian: Пролетарская правда, lit.
Due to the paper's editorial line critical of Soviet communism, many people connected with Segodnya were singled out for persecution by the NKVD.