“Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta” Not Registered :: Charter'97 :: News

Not all newspapers managed to exclude the words “national” and “Belarusian”. The only newspaper that had not received an answer from the Information Ministry is the “Belorusskaya Gazeta”. As the BelaPAN was told by the editor-in-chief Pyotr Martsau (Martsev), the newspaper is trying to re-register with the title “BDG. Delovaya Gazeta”. As said by Martsau, because of the absence of he answer from the Ministry of Information the release of the new issue of the newspaper had been thwarted, as the publishing house needs a certificate of re-registration certified by a notary.

As we have informed, according to the decree of Alyaksandr Lukashenka of May 31, 2005 “On additional principles governing the use of the words Belarusian and national” non-state media, organisations and businesses of the country”, these words could only be used be state-owned organizations and media, and also political parties, national public associations, trade unions and banks. According to the document, organizations and mass media which do not correspond to the requirements of the decree are to be reregistered within three months.

On August 31 the “Belorusskaya Gazeta” was reregistered in the Information Ministry. Since September 5 it is to be issued under a new name “Belgazeta”, The BelaPAN was informed by director general of “BelGazeta” limited liability companyIhar Vysotski.

On August 29 the new 33rd issue of the newspaper “Belorusskiy Rynok” was published under a new title “Belorusy i Rynok”. On August 12 the 60th issue of the “Nationalnaya ekonomicheskaya gazeta” was published under a title “Ekonomicheskaya gazeta”.