Arche magazine comes back

Arche’s editor-in-chief Valer Bulhakau has returned to Belarus.

“We received re-registration documents today in the morning”, - the acting editor-in-chief, Master of Arts in history Ales Pashkievich.

He replaced Valer Bulhakau in this position, when the latter faced the threat of criminal prosecution and left the country. The magazine was already refused to get re-registered four times, Nasha Niva reports.

“Valer Bulhakau will be the editor-in-chief again and I will be his deputy”, - Pashkievich noted.

New issue of the magazine will be sent to publishers immediately. It will be on the history of the Second World war. Arche has not been published since June 2012. The new issue must be out by the beginning of summer.

The magazine celebrates 15-anniversary this year.

We would remind that Arche’s editor-in-chief Valer Bulhakau was detained in Hrodna in September at a presentation of the book ‘Sovietization of Western Belarus’ by Jan Shumski. He was accused of illegal entrepreneurship. The Department of Financial Investigations started an inspection at the printing office, where the magazine was published. Bulhakau was fined for 500 thousand roubles. He left Belarus afraid of criminal prosecution in addition to that.  

It became known on 22 March that no criminal case had been filed against Arche. At the beginning of April Bulhakau returned to the country. But 5000 books, confiscated from him in Autumn, still remain under arrest.