Crackdown Continues on Independent Belarusian Media
Crackdown Continues on Independent Belarusian Media
Author(s): Mikhail VanyashkinSubject(s): Politics
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Belarus; independent media; Belarusian Information Ministry; Chyrvonaya Zorka; BDG; Belarusian President; Alyaksandr Lukashenka; Viktar Kazeka
Summary/Abstract: In what observers are calling another ominous sign of the Belarusian authorities’ crackdown on independent media, the Belarusian Information Ministry has suspended the publication of Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta (BDG), one of the country’s leading independent newspapers, and its investigative supplement, BDG Dlya Sluzhebnogo Polzovaniya, for three months.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2003
- Issue No: 06/02
- Page Range: On Line
- Page Count: 1
- Language: English
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