H.E. Aleksandr Lukashenko President Office of the President 220010 Minsk Minsk oblast Belarus Vienna, 16 October 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global organisation of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the recent action by the authorities against an independent publishing house. According to the information before IPI, on 13 October the […]

H. E. Alexander Lukashenko President of the Republic of Belarus Minsk Belarus Vienna, 29 July 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the detention of a Russian television crew by state authorities. On 22 July 1997, a three-man crew for Russian Public Television (ORT), headed by Minsk bureau chief Pavel Sheremet, was […]

H. E. Alexander Lukashenko President of Belarus Office of the President Minsk Republic of Belarus Vienna, 20 March 1996 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute strongly condemns the sacking of Nikolai Galko, editor of Belarus’ s leading daily newspaper. We are informed that Mr. Galko, editor of the parliamentary daily Narodnaya Gazeta, was dismissed by […]