Several state radio hosts fired in Homel over support of protesters

On 11 Octo­ber, a post appeared in a pro-gov­ern­ment Telegram chan­nel where a fol­low­er alleged­ly com­plained about 107.4FM radio in Homel that was found­ed and is run by the local exec­u­tive com­mit­tee. Accord­ing to the user, a host expressed his admi­ra­tion for Yury Dud, a pop­u­lar Russ­ian jour­nal­ist and blog­ger, who took an anti­war stance. The lis­ten­er was also out­raged by the fact that the anchor con­grat­u­lat­ed the Russ­ian jour­nal­ist on his birth­day in a live broad­cast.

The chan­nel lat­er post­ed screen­shots from the social media of radio hosts Art­siom Zabi­ran and Yaraslau Bychk­ous­ki that fea­tured some con­tent relat­ed to the protests and pub­lic fig­ures asso­ci­at­ed with the oppo­si­tion.

Zerka­lo report­ed that Zabi­ran and Bychkovsky have already been fired. Their names dis­ap­peared from Homel City Radio’s web­site.

Accord­ing to a source famil­iar with the sit­u­a­tion, oth­er employ­ees also lost their jobs, and inspec­tions of oth­er state media began.

Medi­a­zona also found out about the dis­missal of Mary­na Turavets.