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The year 2020 was a revolutionary test for the Belarusian media. Never before had the media sector faced so many challenges at once: the extrajudicial blocking of dozens of websites, arrests of journalists and editors, and the departure of some editorial offices abroad. All this took place against the backdrop of shrinking advertising budgets due to the coronavirus.
In Nasha Niva the situation was somewhat peculiar. It temporarily lost its domain back in June. This was shocking, but it helped to develop response mechanisms, which had to be applied at the end of August after the repeated forced relocation to the mirror domain.
Several law enforcement agency personnel decisions last week were driven by the need to buttress loyalty.
On March 11 2021, Alexander Lukashenka appointed Vadim Sinyavsky as Minister for Emergency Situations. Sinyavsky was previously in charge of the Hrodna region’s Internal Affairs Directorate, one of the protest activity centres, in August 2020. The new head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations spent almost his entire career in various positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the exception being a leadership position with the Security Service of the President of Belarus from December 2009 to April 2012. The new Minister has already stated that discipline is his leading priority in his new role.