BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/11/2005

Belarus: State postal service refuses to distribute seven more newspapers

/noticias.info/ Reporters Without Borders today condemned a decision by the state postal service, Belposhta, to stop delivering seven independent newspapers to subscribers on 1 January. Earlier this month, Belposhta had announced its intention to terminate its contracts with three other privately-owned publications at the start of next year.

The seven latest newspapers to be affected are the weeklies Nasha Niva, Gazeta Slonimskaya, Volnaye Hlybokaye, Bretski Kuryer, IntexPress and Regionalnaya Gazeta, and the biweekly Vitebski Kuryer.

In an interview for Radio Free Europe, Nasha Niva editor Andrey Dynko described the postal service's refusal to continue delivering the newspapers as a crime against Belarusian culture and as yet further evidence that the conditions do not exist for free elections to be held.

Source:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=119616&src=0

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