NTV Reporting Yet to Be Censored :: Charter'97 :: News

The Russian television network NTV`s Belarus bureau resumes its work, and there will be no censoring of its coverage from the side of Minsk. It was stated in the interview to Russian information agency “Novosti” by deputy director of NTV information department Alexandr Gerasimov. As said by him, the agreement signed on January 19, 2004 on cooperation between Belarusian Ministry of Information and television network NTV “just regularizes our relations”. However, NTV take upon itself additional obligations while preparing reporting of activities of the president, government and other state establishments, Gerasimov said. “We are not to submit material to somebody`s approval. While covering any event somehow related to state institutes, we are simply to take into consideration the position of press services, who are in fact speakers of these state institutes we are to report about”, stated Gerasimov.