Distribution through postal subscription was refused to the leading oppositional newspaper of Belarus, “Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta” (“Belarusian Business Newspaper”). As the correspondent of the Rossbalt agency informs, the director general of privately owned enterprise “Marat”, founder and publisher of the newspaper Pyotr Martsaw say to the journalists in Minsk that the public enterprise “Belposhta” has cancelled a contract with the “BDG” newspaper and now are returning money to subscribers. “Besides, representatives of Minsk, Brest and Vitsebsk branches of “Belsayuzdruk” informed us about their refusal to distribute our newspaper, - said Martsaw. – In this way the state structures refused to deliver the newspaper, and cancelled it from the subscription catalogues”.
As said by the publisher, it is a “planned blow against the newspaper”, and the originator of this operation is Administration of President of Belarus. “Even employees of Belposhta and “Belsayuzdruk” have not veiled that it had been an order of the authorities”, underlined Martsaw.
As the director general reminded that the “BDG” already had a sad experience of the same situation in 1996-1997, when the newspaper was printed abroad (in Lithuania) and supplied through an individual net of vendors.
In 2003 the Belarusian Business Newspaper was printed in Smolensk (Russian Federation).
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