Ministry of Information Warns TUT.by Portal
18 March 2017
The Ministry of Information issued a warning to TUT.by for a report about Belarusian volunteers at Donbass war fighting for Ukraine; the respective letter was sent to the editorial office of the website on March 17, the warning was dated March 14.
The warning concerns an article titled “Parents first wrote I was a fascist. How Belarusians fight in Ukraine”. According to the warning, information from the article “can damage the national interests of the country”.
The report was deleted from the website, guided by the current legislation, but the editorial office requested for explanations from the Ministry about what phrases violated the legislation.
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