Komsomolskaya pravda

No.

Date

Form of repres­sion

Descrip­tion

17 August 2020

Ban on print­ing

Restric­tions on the dis­tri­b­u­tion of print­ed edi­tion

The Belaru­sian Press House refused to print the new issue of the Kom­so­mol­skaya prav­da.

The rea­son was the late deliv­ery of the issue. The August 20 issue was not print­ed because the edi­tors did not inform the print­ing house that it would be a dou­ble issue.

Sub­se­quent­ly, the edi­to­r­i­al board received a let­ter from the print­ing house stat­ing that, due to COVID-19, the com­pa­ny had prob­lems obtain­ing parts and sup­plies for the machines. There­fore, they had to sus­pend print­ing, and the print­ing house had state news­pa­pers as a pri­or­i­ty.

Oth­er Belaru­sian print­ing hous­es refused to print the news­pa­per.

As a result, the August 18 and 20 issues of the news­pa­per were not print­ed in Belarus. The issues for August 21, 22 and 25 were print­ed in Rus­sia.

Bel­posh­ta and Bel­sayuz­druk stopped dis­trib­ut­ing Kom­so­mol­skaya prav­da. The news­pa­per launched dis­tri­b­u­tion through the edi­to­r­i­al office, super­mar­kets, and chain stores.

26 August 2020

Unsched­uled inspec­tion

The State Con­trol Com­mit­tee of the Repub­lic of Belarus and the Inspec­torate for Tax­es and Duties start­ed a com­pre­hen­sive unsched­uled inspec­tion of the Kom­so­mol­skaya prav­da pub­lish­er ZAO BelKP-Press.

There was no spe­cif­ic rea­son for start­ing the inspec­tion.

29 Sep­tem­ber 2021

Web­site block­ing

Access to the web­site of the Kom­so­mol­skaya prav­da news­pa­per kp.by was blocked in Belarus by the deci­sion of the Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion.

The Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion of Belarus stat­ed that «the Inter­net resource kp.by made a pub­li­ca­tion that con­tained infor­ma­tion con­tribut­ing to the for­ma­tion of threats to nation­al secu­ri­ty, which con­sist­ed in arti­fi­cial aggra­va­tion of ten­sion and con­fronta­tion in soci­ety, as well as between soci­ety and the state.

5 Octo­ber 2021

Ter­mi­na­tion of mass media (online media) pub­liсa­tion

It was decid­ed to close the Belaru­sian edi­to­r­i­al office of the Russ­ian pub­lish­ing house Kom­so­mol­skaya prav­da.

The news­pa­per stopped its work.