Independent press hidden from the buyers 16:00, 12/07/2007
When buying non-governmental press “SNplus” at the “Tamara” shop of the trade republican unitary enterprise “Gomelobssoyuzdruk” (Gomel regional publishing house) Gomel journalist Maria Shimanouskaya learnt from talk of the shop staff about the given order to hide the non-governmental press from the buyers.
“One of the shop-assistants when seeing the “SNplus” (Free News)newspaper in my hands when I was going to pay for it addressed the cashier saying ”He came and said ”Let me see this paper nevermore!” The cashier replied ”Last month they put it in secluded places ,thus, it wasn’t sold out”, Maria Shimanskaya reproduced the heard talk to the monitoring service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
The journalist’s question who ordered to put the “SNplus” (Free News)newspaper away remained unanswered as the shop-assistant refused to talk and resigned to the backroom .She also refused to tell her name,
Cashier Vera Kruglikava also refused to explain who had given the order concerning the “SNplus” (Free News) newspaper.
The talk took place at the “Tamara” shop of the trade republican unitary enterprise “Gomelobssoyuzdruk”(Gomel regional publishing house) 11 July.
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