Outsider Papers Get Back to State Distribution Nets

In Feb­ru­ary, the chief edi­tor of Nar­o­d­naya Volya raised the issue in a meet­ing with Ali­ak­san­dr Lukashen­ka. He hand­ed over a list of 9 news­pa­pers that could not get a con­tract for dis­tri­b­u­tion with Bel­posh­ta and/or Bel­sayuz­druk net­works. Lukashen­ka promised to tack­le the issue of dis­tri­b­u­tion of non-state mass media.

Obvi­ous­ly, he did, because the news­pa­pers who had been out of the state dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem since 2006 now have got pos­i­tive respons­es and have already drawn up con­tracts of ser­vices. These are news­pa­pers Gaze­ta Slonim­skaya, Novy Chas, Intex-press (Baranavichy) and Borisovskiye Novosti. The rest, like SNPlus and Vol­naye Hly­bokaye are also in the process.