ONT TV Channel Ignored Entrepreneurs in Brest

The entre­pre­neurs are out­raged by news on state TV that says that, alleged­ly, there is noth­ing scary at mar­kets, and offi­cial rep­re­sen­ta­tives assure TV view­ers that entre­pre­neurs sim­ply decid­ed to close down for hol­i­days. Siarhei Malt­sau, an entre­pre­neur from Brest, says that such news mis­in­form the pub­lic. The real trou­ble is that many entre­pre­neurs stopped work­ing because of Edict No 222, which allows sell­ing only the goods that have accom­pa­ny­ing cer­tifi­cate of qual­i­ty (which many entre­pre­neurs fail to get from sup­pli­ers). How­ev­er, when the entre­pre­neurs from Brest appealed to the ONT TV to speak out their view­point, they heard that the top­ic did not deserve atten­tion.

“In coun­tries where 90% of sole traders at mar­kets and in shop­ping cen­ters stopped their work, wouldn’t TV notice this issue?” – ask the activists. “This again con­firms that there is no free­dom of expres­sion, and you won’t hear the opin­ion of the very entre­pre­neurs on state TV.”

Edict No 222, enforced since Jan­u­ary 1, 2016, demands that goods of light indus­try import­ed from coun­tries of the Cus­toms Union can­not be sold unless they have a cer­tifi­cate of qual­i­ty. Entre­pre­neurs had a span of time to sell the rest of their goods with­out the nec­es­sary doc­u­ments import­ed into Belarus before July 1, 2014.

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