“Mestnaja Gazeta” remained without printing-house :: Charter'97 :: News

The director of the Nesvizh Symon Budny printing-house Alexander Ladiata is discharged. The press-service of the Belarusian Journalists Assosiation was informed on 28 July. Last week the printing-house published the issue of Baranovichy “Mestnaja Gazeta” with the materials of the banned by the authorities “BDG”. Today Liadata himself called the editor-in-chief of “MG” Anatolyi Voitsehovsky, told about his dismissal and apologized himself for not having the possibility to follow the agreement between the edition and the printing office.

The printing office in Nesvizh was one of the ten that agreed to publish “MG” after it begin to insert “BDG” materials. According to editor-in-chief of “MG” Voitsehovsky, the President’s administration ruled to reject the co-operation with the edition first in the printing-houses of Grodno and Brest regions. The analogical instructions were imposed to the edition with the same title - “Mestnaja Gazeta” of Volkovysk.

Anatolyi Voitsehovskyi declared that the rights of the edition are violated and he is going to bring an action to the Region Economic court because the agreement with the Nesvizh printing-house has been signed for the period of a year.

For the first time “Mestnaja Gazeta” published the materials of the banned “BDG” on 17 July. On 18 July the director of the Slonim printing-house annulled the agreement on the polygraph services stating that “owning to the technical reasons the printing-house cannot publish the newspaper anymore”. As deemed by Voitsehovsky, a day before the printing-house was visited by the state inspection, after it the director of marketing department was dismissed and the enterprise’s director turned to be in a hospital with a heart attack. On July 25 the next in turn issue of the Baranovichy edition with the materials of “BDG”, published in Nesvizh came on the market. Now this printing office will be punished as well.