H.E. Aleksandr Lukashenko President Office of the President Minsk Republic of Belarus Vienna, 2 June 2003 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 115 countries, strongly condemns the recent suspension of the independent daily Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta (BDG). According to information provided to […]

H.E. Aleksandr Lukashenko President Office of the President Minsk Republic of Belarus Vienna, 29 June 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the sentencing of independent journalists Mikola Markevich and Paval Mazheika to two-and-a-half and two years, respectively, of hard labour. On […]

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 […]