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    Winners of Volnaye Slova 2024 competition announced!

    The results of the tra­di­tion­al annu­al Vol­naye Slo­va (Free Word) con­test, which aims to improve the pro­fes­sion­al skills of media work­ers and encour­age tal­ent­ed jour­nal­ists, were announced in Vil­nius on Sep­tem­ber 12.
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    “To get official information, you have to present yourself as someone other than a journalist.” New realities and challenges for independent media

    A new real­i­ty con­front­ed the Belaru­sian media in exile. Have jour­nal­is­tic stan­dards changed? These and many oth­er ques­tions were dis­cussed at the con­fer­ence “Belaru­sian Mass Media. Con­tent Qual­i­ty and Issues of Self-Reg­u­la­tion”, orga­nized by the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists.
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    BAJ chair addresses Economic Forum in Karpacz

    On Sep­tem­ber 3, the 33rd Eco­nom­ic Forum opened in Karpacz, Poland. Andrei Bas­tunets, chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists, was among the speak­ers. He talked about the Belaru­sian press and how it gets influ­enced by Russ­ian pro­pa­gan­da.
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    Polish media: Belsat correspondents do not receive regular salaries

    Pol­ish edi­tion Press.pl found out that jour­nal­ists of the Bel­sat TV chan­nel, work­ing in Ukraine and Rus­sia, com­plain about irreg­u­lar pay­ment of salaries. Prob­lems with pay­ments are also report­ed in the head­quar­ters in War­saw, includ­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tives of pro­duc­tion and instal­la­tion teams.
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    The Court of Appeal in Belgrade heard the parties in the case of Andrei Hniot. The decision will be made within 30 days

    On August 27, the Court of Appeal in Ser­bia held a hear­ing on the appeal of the Belaru­sian film­mak­er and jour­nal­ist Andrei Hniot. This is the last instance that can block the deci­sion of the Ser­bian author­i­ties to extra­dite Hniot to Belarus or, con­verse­ly, agree with the deci­sion of the Supreme Court of Ser­bia.
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    Orsha.eu website recognized as extremist formation

    There is no infor­ma­tion about it in the “list of extrem­ist for­ma­tions” on the offi­cial web­site of the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs (as of 16:30 on August 29, 2024). How­ev­er, the Telegram chan­nel t.me/guBAZA claims that “by the deci­sion of the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs the activ­i­ty of a group of cit­i­zens unit­ed under the […]
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    Journalists Alena Tsimashchuk and Aliaksandr Kirkevich added to “extremists” list

    The list of “per­sons prone to extrem­ist activ­i­ty,” updat­ed on August 23 on the web­site of the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs of Belarus, indi­cates that Brest-based jour­nal­ist Ale­na Tsi­mashchuk is cur­rent­ly serv­ing a sen­tence. The same is true for Ali­ak­san­dr Kirke­vich, a jour­nal­ist from Hrod­na. How­ev­er, he has long since left Belarus and is not […]
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    Belarusian journalist Larysa Shchyrakova among Free Media Awards winners

    The Fritt Ord Foun­da­tion and the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius Foun­da­tion announced that the 2024 Free Media Awards will be pre­sent­ed to jour­nal­ists and media from Belarus, Geor­gia, Ukraine, Azer­bai­jan, Rus­sia and, for the first time, Hun­gary. Among the lau­re­ates, the name of Gomel jour­nal­ist Larysa Shchyrako­va, who is cur­rent­ly behind bars, was announced.
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    Former BT journalist Dzmitry Luksha and his wife Palina Palavinka released from prison

    The cou­ple was released from prison on par­don. Both were released from prison on July 3, but human rights activists report­ed only the release of Pali­na Palavin­ka. No infor­ma­tion about Dzmit­ry Luk­sha was report­ed.
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    Journalist Ksenia Lutskina, who defied National TV, pardoned

    Lut­ski­na was released from cus­tody a few days after Ali­ak­san­dr Lukashen­ka announced the release of sev­er­al polit­i­cal pris­on­ers with seri­ous health issues. Kse­nia Lut­ski­na suf­fers from asth­ma and has been diag­nosed with can­cer. Two tumors were found in her head, one of which was removed in 2012.
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    NUJU presents flag of unity to Belarusian Association of Journalists

    Dur­ing his trip to Kyiv, Deputy Chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists Barys Haret­s­ki met with Chair­man of the Nation­al Union of Jour­nal­ists of Ukraine Ser­hii Tomilenko.
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    Russian Prosecutors threaten to block Reform.news over controversial content

    The Russ­ian watch­dog Roskom­nad­zor has sent a warn­ing to the edi­tors of Reform.news that the site will be blocked for Russ­ian users in 24 hours unless all infor­ma­tion on it is removed.
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    ECHR denies Andrei Hniot’s bid to block extradition to Belarus

    The legal coun­sel request­ed that the extra­di­tion of the direc­tor be pro­hib­it­ed until the Euro­pean Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has con­sid­ered his case. How­ev­er, on August 19, the ECHR in Stras­bourg denied Andrei Hniot pro­tec­tion from extra­di­tion for the third time.
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    Provincial newspaper dodges penalty for using ‘extremist’ visuals

    The prosecutor’s office acknowl­edged that Lep­el­s­ki Krai had dis­trib­uted “extrem­ist” mate­ri­als. Still, the edi­to­r­i­al staff was not pun­ished, unlike non-state pub­li­ca­tions, which are usu­al­ly fined.
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    Supreme Court to consider appeal of ex-journalist Alena Tsimashchuk

    The con­sid­er­a­tion of the appeal of Ale­na Tsi­mashchuk, a jour­nal­ist from Brest, sen­tenced to 5 years in prison and fined $14,000, is sched­uled for August 16. The hear­ing in the Supreme Court will begin at 9:30 a.m. Judge Siarhei Hurau will pre­side.
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