Archive
22.02.2017
Books from Radio Svaboda Collection Seized on Border
Scientist Viktar Korbut had sent some books from his personal collection to Belarus, to return them home; customs’ office seized them for examination concerning extremist contents.
21.02.2017
Tatsiana Svirepa. YOUTH WILL FORGIVE EVERYTHING
BAJ website and Naviny.by keep publishing photo projects created by students of the educational course "Photo project: from idea to promotion". The second story was created by Tatsiana Svirepa and called Youth Will Forgive Everything, explanation for the title you are likely to find in the photos.
20.02.2017
Victoria Sinchylina. BACKSTAGE
Volunteers, beginner model, claustrophobia of urban open space, gambling business – these are the topics covered by young photographers within the project of BAJ Molodost. Belarus (Youth. Belarus). One and a half months of creative torments were crowned with the photo exhibition, presented on February 17 at the Literary Museum named after Piatrus Brouka, Minsk. Seven (corrected) series within the photo project will be published daily on the website baj.by and on naviny.by, BelaPAN news agency. The project was curated by Siarhei Balay, photo editor of Naviny.by, and Mikhail Domozhilov (Doc Doc Doc, School of Modern Journalism, Russia).
17.02.2017
Media in Belarus Conference: Challenges and Chances
The two-day conference “Mass Media in Belarus: Challenges and Chances” gathered media professionals, civil society and governmental officials from Belarus and abroad. Some important messages below briefly explain what issues are faced by journalistic community in Belarus, and not only, from the perspective of laws and politics.
15.02.2017
Media in Belarus Conference, Day Two
On the conference’ second day, the speakers touched upon the issues of economic hardships, copyright disputes and the specific of online transition of traditional independent mass media. Some remarkable excerpts from the conference can be found below.
14.02.2017
International Conference on Media Challenges Held in Minsk
On February 13 – 14, the Belarusian Association of Journalists jointly with the Media Institute Fojo held a press conference “Mass Media in Belarus: Challenges and Chances”.
12.02.2017
Belarus State in Two Minds about Ukrainian Writer
Within a day, Belarusian law enforcement agencies forbid the prominent poet and writer Serhiy Zhadan to stay in Belarus, but then overturned the ban.
01.02.2017
Polish MFA Ends Contract with Belsat
The Radio Svaboda reports that the Polish MFA has stopped financing Belsat TV.
01.02.2017
Russia Bans a Ukrainian Journalist to Stay in Belarus
The incident took place at the hotel were the shooting crew of the independent Ukrainian channel was staying. Vital Sizou was instructed to leave the territory of Belarus for the reason that he was on the Russian list of unwelcomed persons.
23.01.2017
Belarus to Extradite Blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan
As reported on January 20, the Belarusian General prosecutor’s office ruled to extradite Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan, where he is accused of separatism.