The First Belarusian Newspaper to be closed down?!
If we don’t keep fighting, Lukashenka’s regime will go on destroying everything, until nothing is left. This is something we all should understand about this dictatorial regime. Today I received the news the the First Belarusian newspaper “Nasha Niva” is under a serious risk of being closed down.
Department of ideology wants to close it down because the editor-in-chief… was in jail for 10 days. That’s the reason they give for wanting to close their offices.
Let me remind you, the editor-in-chief Andrej Dynko was detained at a bus stop on the October square on March 21st, when he tried to bring some food to the protesters on the square, who protested against massive falsification of the “election” results and demanded new elections. Later he was sentenced to a 10-day arrest after being convicted of using “foul language” in public (this man probably doesn’t even know a single swearing word; let alone publicly use it). In fact, he was detained because police heard him speaking in Belarusian language, and that was good enough reason to arrest him.
The authorities are cynically closing down “Nasha Niva” on the eve of its 100th anniversary. This legendary newspaper was founded in 1906, and it was the first ever newspaper published completely in Belarusian language. In 1915 the original “Nasha Niva” was closed after Vilnius was occupied by German troops. In 2006 the attempt to close it is ordered by the Lukashenka administration. We don’t have any German occupation in 2006. It’s Lukashenka’s Russian-Soviet occupation. And they’ve advanced very far.
This is the last existing independent newspaper that is published in Belarusian language.
The attempt to destroy “Nasha Niva” is a symbolical beginning of Alaksandar Lukashenka’s third term, after a massive falsification of the vote.
You can read more about it on their official website nn.by. Their English is far from perfect, but it provides a very good summary of the current situation.
P.S. And please spread the word if you can. I think they really need help now.
April 18th, 2006 at 10:58 am
their site is not working…
April 18th, 2006 at 11:45 am
Gues it’s already down.. allwhois reports domain is available, whois.net claims the domain name is invalid, does not show in search results. And this is the result for my third attempt :
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April 18th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Sorry, forgot to add. Last google cache dating from 11 Apr 2006 15:42:36 GMT
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:a9m7qsieyaQJ:www.nn.by/+Nasha+Niva&hl=en&gl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
April 18th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Follow-up, www,tld.by claims it HAS been registered. However RIPE NCC says it is not??? I can’t make any of it.
(Administrator please merge my comments into one)
April 18th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
It was up until 3 days ago, then it went down. Someone told me they are hosted by http://www.promedia.by/ (a EU-sponsored programme TACIS). And that supposedly ProMedia was in the process of moving their servers from Minsk to Moscow.
April 18th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
You can read the original text from nn.by here:
* http://www.tolblogs.org/belarus/en/?p=49
April 18th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
а па-беларуску дзе пачытаць тое?
April 18th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
> It was up until 3 days ago, then it went down. Someone told me they are
>hosted by http://www.promedia.by/ (a EU-sponsored programme TACIS).
>And that supposedly ProMedia was in the process of moving their servers
>from Minsk to Moscow.
Ah makes sense.. that page doesnt open either :)
April 18th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Mirritil Says:
> а па-беларуску дзе пачытаць тое?
Напрыклад, тут
http://www.svaboda.org/articlesfeatures/politics/2006/4/87E38CD1-544E-4FA7-B3EF-7B7F38CFAE19.html
April 18th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Department of Ideology sounds like department of Propaganda in Hitler’s Germany.
I will reprint the article on my blog and hope you don’t mind that I have linked to your English blog on my own.
Cheers
Alex
April 18th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Дзякуй. Толькі ў артыкуле на свабодзе я нарэшце зразумеў, што справа ідзе пра юрыдычны адрас, а зусім не пра закрыцьцё ці забарону газэты. Ні ў гэтым посьце, ні ў англамоўным звароце нічога не зразумела. Хоць свабода растлумачыла.
Цікава было б пабачыць тэкст Ціцянкова.
April 18th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Mirritil:
1) З “Саюздруку” выкінулі.
2) З падпіснога каталёгу выкінулі.
3) Ліцэнзію на распаўсюд не далі.
4) Цяпер адмаўляюць у юрыдычным адрасе.
Як гэта назваць адным словам?
April 19th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Bespredel…
April 19th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Wanted to note that their site is back up.
> Their English is far from perfect, but it provides a very good summary of the current situation.
Have to say their english is fine to me, or did I get used to it? I dont know…
> P.S. And please spread the word if you can. I think they really need help now.
I agree… but the best I can is tell people, give donation or open up a few servers to use as a proxy bounce / mirror for their website so Belarusian citizens can still access it. Eventually the domain nn.by will be blocked I’m sure.
April 20th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Administrator:
гэта, вядома, перашкоды і вайна. але ж, што самае галоўнае (!!!!), у іх не адбіраюць ліцэнзію, яны маюць права друкаваць вялізным накладам газэту, і прычым на ДЗЯРЖАЎНЫМ прадпрыемстве; іхны наклад ніколі не арыштоўваюць. гэта так шмат! а ўжо як распаўсюдзіцца - знойдуць.
іншыя газэты (”Згода”, “Народная Воля”, і г.д.) зайздросьцяць таму, што яшчэ ёсьць у НН.
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