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Information Ministry Registers Lohvinau Bookstore as Book Distributor
Supreme Court Upholds Fine to Lohvinau
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting January 26 – February 8, 2015
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting January 26 – February 8, 2015
Within the reporting period, two journalists were found guilty of participating in the street action which they covered; it became known how many informational materials were examined by the commission on extremism; and state agencies kept answering to BAJ what they thought about websites blocking in the last decade of December.
Lohvinau’s Suit against Information Ministry Dismissed
Lohvinau’s Suit against Information Ministry Dismissed
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting January 12 – 25, 2015
The first month of the year went on with one more fine to a journalist for contribution to foreign mass media without accreditation; also, several journalists’ complaints were dismissed; a blogger was fined for insulting an official on duty; and the Supreme Court upheld the warning issued by the Information Ministry to the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya.
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting January 12 – 25, 2015
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting January 5 – 11, 2015
The most remarkable event of the reporting period seems to be the real threat of bankruptcy of the Lohvinau bookstore which has been fined and ordered to pay a billion rubles for “illegal entrepreneur’s activities” –selling books without registration of the Information Ministry. The private enterprise Lohvinau was not registered in 2014 in the newly set-up State Register of distributors of print products although thebookstore had applied for registration six times.
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting January 5 – 11, 2015
The most remarkable event of the reporting period seems to be the real threat of bankruptcy of the Lohvinau bookstore which has been fined and ordered to pay a billion rubles for “illegal entrepreneur’s activities” –selling books without registration of the Information Ministry. The private enterprise Lohvinau was not registered in 2014 in the newly set-up State Register of distributors of print products although thebookstore had applied for registration six times.
Lohvinau Bookstore Fined
If the court decision comes into legal force, the bookstore will go bankrupt.
Lohvinau Bookstore Fined
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting December 22, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Mass Media Week in Belarus Info-posting December 22, 2014 – January 4, 2015
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