Veterans Hold Authorized Rally Near Narodnaya Volya Office

06.04.2010 14:09
Архив Редакция

April 6, near the office of Narodnaya Volya independent newspaper, there was a picket authorized by Minsk City Executive Committee. From 11:00 to 11:30 a.m., the editorial office of independent newspaper was picketed by veterans and young men in black leather coats. Several dozen people stood in front of the windows of editorial office with placards saying "Siaredzich, will not allow to abase veterans", "Shame on falsifiers of history," "Down with slander", "Veterans against the lie".

A little more than 30 people protested against the newspaper’s publication of Ilya Kopyl’s article «Nyabyshyna. The War», which, according to the picketers, falsely tells about the events of the Great Patriotic War on the territory of Belarus.

In the editorial office reported that the rally was headed by the leader of Minsk city veterans’ organization, Anatoly Adoniev. Veterans came to the editorial office to see the newspaper’s editor, Iosif Siaredzich, but he was absent, that’s why chief editor, Svetlana Kalinkina, came to the veterans. The journalist promised the veterans to give them possibility to express their opinion in newspaper.

According to the newspaper staff, the rally — lasted 15-20 minutes — was observed by plainclothes security officers and representatives of state mass media who behaved rudely and went into the newspaper’s office with cameras.

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