In Belarus, there are both privately held and state-owned newspapers. [1]
Below is a list of newspapers published in Belarus. These newspapers are published in Minsk, unless otherwise noted.
The mass media in Belarus are mass-media outlets based in Belarus. Television, magazines, and newspapers are operated by state-owned and for-profit corporations and depend on advertising, subscriptions, and other sales-related revenue. The Constitution of Belarus guarantees freedom of speech, but this is contradicted in practice by repressive and restrictive laws. Arbitrary detention, arrests, and harassment of journalists are frequent in Belarus. Anti-extremism legislation targets independent journalism, including material considered unfavourable to the president.
Narodnaja Volya is an independent opposition newspaper founded by Iosif Seredich.
Censorship in Belarus, although prohibited by the country's constitution, is enforced by a number of laws. These include a law that makes insulting the president punishable by up to five years in prison, and another that makes criticizing Belarus abroad punishable by up to two years in prison.
Belarusian Liberal Youth Organization "Civil Forum" is the only Belarusian liberal youth organization and the only democratic youth organization with the legal status on national level. Civil Forum acts in order to bring closer the day when elections in Belarus are free from frauds, when liberal rights and freedoms of individuals are not repressed by the government, when citizens are free to speak and act without fear of being imprisoned by political and ideological reasons, when Belarus is the sustainable, responsible and peaceable partner in the Eastern-European region.
Belposhta or Belpochta is the national postal service of Belarus. It became a member of the Universal Postal Union in 1947.
The Belarusian Private News Agency or shortly BelaPAN is a non-governmental independent Belarusian news agency, one of the main in the country. BelaPAN provides news on politics, economy, and sports from Belarus in Russian, Belarusian and English. The staff includes a wide net of reporters and correspondents.
Marjina Horka is a town in Minsk Voblast, Belarus, the capital of the Pukhavichy Raion. As of 2009 its population was 22,500.
Narodnaya Gazeta is a newspaper that started in 1990 in Minsk, Belarus.
BelGazeta (БелГазета) is a Russian language newspaper published weekly in Belarus. Until September 2005, it was known as “Belorusskaya Gazeta.”
Muzykalnaya Gazeta was a Belarusian weekly newspaper covered music and show business.
Hazeta Slonimskaya is an independent local Belarusian newspaper. It is published in Slonim, Belarus.
Intex-Press is an independent local newspaper published in Baranovichi, Belarus.
Barys Tasman, is one of the most respected sports writers of Belarusian journalism.
Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta is a now-defunct, business-oriented daily Russian-language newspaper based in Minsk, Belarus, known for its criticisms of President Alexander Lukashenko's government.
The 2017 Belarusian protests were a series of demonstrations and street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko that broke out in late February 2017. Protesters mobilized against a tax levied against the unemployed in Belarus. Demonstrations and marches were held in sites throughout the country with sizes of several hundred to several thousand gathering at a given time.
Spasenie is a Belarusian Christian and pop rock band from Brest, which was created in 1989.
Brestskaya Gazeta is a non-governmental newspaper from Brest, Belarus. Its first number came on November 18, 2002. The main language of the newspaper and its website is Russian, but some stories are written in Belarusian. Its latest issue is dated December 30, 2020.
Free Media Awards is the press prizes awarded by the two foundations The Fritt Ord Foundation and the ZEIT-Stiftung.
Belaruskaya Gazeta was a pro-fascist collaborationist newspaper published in Minsk in the Belarusian language from 27 July 1941 to 28 June 1944 under the control of the German occupation authorities. From its first publication until 5 February 1942 it was called Menskaya Gazeta. It was the largest Belarusian anti-Soviet periodical during the Second World War. The editors of the newspaper were Alexei Senkevich, Uładzisłau Kazłouski, A. Demchenko, Mikołaj Shkelenok and Anton Adamovich. A total of 272 issues were published.
Oleg Grushecki is a Belarusian writer, journalist, translator, public figure. The revivalist of scouting in Belarus, one of the founders of the «Belarusian Scout Association». Author of literary and historical articles in both Belarusian and foreign scientific publications. Winner of a number of creative awards.