{"id":43469,"date":"2022-08-24T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/local-newspapers-registration-scrapped\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"local-newspapers-registration-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43469\/","title":{"rendered":"Local newspaper\u2019s registration scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>August 24, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Privately-owned newspaper <span>Gazeta Slonimskaya<\/span> reports that the information ministry has annulled&nbsp;its registration certificate.<\/p>\n<p> The registration of its advertising supplement <span>Otdushina<\/span> has also been revoked.<\/p>\n<p> The ministry\u2019s formal notice was received on August 23. The reason is that the papers have not been printed in the last six months.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn mid-July 2022, the Ministry of Information asked us to clarify why the editorial office is not sending <span>Gazeta Slonimskaya<\/span>\u2019s mandatory free copies to the ministry. The editorial office sent it an explanation that Hrodna, Brest and Pinsk printing houses had refused to print <span>Gazeta Slonimskaya<\/span> and <span>Otdushina<\/span>, citing heavy workload and dense print schedule,\u201d the newspaper said on its website.<\/p>\n<p> It was published since 2011 at&nbsp;a printing house in Hrodna, which was shut down last year.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Gazeta Slonimskaya<\/span> and <span>Otdushina<\/span> have not been printed since November 9, 2020. On that day, police searched the home of editor-in-chief Hanna Va\u0142ada\u0161\u010duk and the editorial office, seizing all equipment.<\/p>\n<p> The <span>Gazeta Slonimskaya<\/span> weekly was the only independent&nbsp;newspaper in S\u0142onim, Hrodna region, covering sociopolitical developments. In 2008, it received a prestigious Free Media Award (Germany). It also received the Belarusian Association of Journalists\u2019 diploma For Dedication to Profession.<\/p>\n<p>On February 7, 2022, the Ministry of Information blocked access to the newspaper\u2019s website in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, BPN. Privately-owned newspaper Gazeta Slonimskaya reports that the information ministry has annulled&nbsp;its registration certificate. The registration of its advertising supplement Otdushina has also been revoked. The ministry\u2019s formal notice was received on August 23. The reason is that the papers have not been printed in the last six months. \u201cIn mid-July 2022, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43469","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Local newspaper\u2019s registration scrapped | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 24, BPN. Privately-owned newspaper Gazeta Slonimskaya reports that the information ministry has annulled&nbsp;its registration certificate. 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