Igor Petrishenko
Igor Petrishenko
Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus
The information war against Belarus has not ended yet. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko made the statement at a session of the Belarusian Information Ministry board on 25 February, BelTA has learned.
The official said: “The information war – and it is exactly a war – that has been launched against our country is not over yet. The Information Ministry has managed to do its job as a whole. Our mass media have recovered from the situation decently and continue stoutly defending state interests and priorities. In the last six months the role of mass media increased so much that it is now difficult to estimate it properly. The processes going on in the university student community, the youth community, and even in labor collectives of enterprises depend heavily on how mass media work. And on how clearly we formulate the information agenda, how promptly we repulse attempts at destructive influence on our soc
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The Information Ministry is now looking into a number of publications on the website tut.by in order to verify their compliance with Article 38 of the Mass Media Law (information, which Internet resources must not distribute).
Court ruling to strip Belarusian website tut.by of mass media status upheld
The Economic Court of Minsk
MINSK, 19 January (BelTA) – The court ruling to strip the website tut.by of its mass media status has been upheld, representatives of the Economic Court of Minsk told BelTA.
The decision of the court of appeal comes into force as of the moment it is passed but can be challenged under the cassation procedure within one month.
On 19 January the appeals instance of the Economic Court of Minsk examined the appeal filed by the company TUT BY MEDIA against the decision to strip the website tut.by of its mass media status. On 3 December 2020 the Economic Court of Minsk gave a ruling in a lawsuit filed by the Belarusian Information Ministry against the company in order to terminate the operation of the online medium tut.by. The lawsuit s claims were satisfied in full.