Belarusian Afront

The Russian authorities must take measures against some information resources that call the sovereignty of Belarus. This was stated by the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Information Lilia Ananich, Beta reports .

"Such publications are harmful both by Belarus and Russia," the minister said. According to her, the state should repel attempts to incite interethnic growth in the media. “We must understand that the state, seeing such processes, should not remain aloof and clearly,“ in the bud ”, to repulse such manifestations,” Ananich emphasized. “We see these processes and consider them unacceptable to grow them. These are stuffing beneficial to certain persons.”

According to the minister, "the sovereignty of Belarus is called into question, insulting statements are contained in the Belarusian people, their history, language, culture", is submitted "in a tendentious way, the activities of the head of the Belarusian state, power structures in different areas - politics, economics, culture."

“At the same time, the thesis of the allegedly“ departure of Belarus to the West ”,“ anti -Russian policy of the Belarusian power ”and so on are constantly being extended,” Ananich said.

"On November 1 of this year, we appealed to the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications on the facts of such publications," the head of Mininform said.

The day before, the publicists Dmitry Alimkin, Yuri Pavlovets and Sergey Shiptenko, who wrote for the Russian media, were detained and placed under custody . The country's Investigative Committee said that they are suspected of "inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity or growth" (Article 130 of the Criminal Code of Belarus). The sanction of this article provides for from 5 to 12 years in prison.

The basis for the initiation of criminal cases was the publication of articles of authors on REGNUM, Lenta.ru and Eadaily sites. The SKB report emphasizes that the publications were published under the pseudonyms of Nikolai Radov, Pavel Yurintsev, Alla Bron and Arthur Grigoryev.

"As a result of the investigative actions, it was found that behind the pseudonym Alla Brron is hiding Dmitry Alimkin, a resident of Brest, working as a watchman in one of the educational institutions of the city, and Pavel Yurintsev and Nikolai Radov - Yuri Pavlovets, teacher BSUIR," the report said. Under the pseudonym, Arthur Grigoryev wrote a resident of Minsk Shiptenko for REGNUM.

"During the searches, data was received on the involvement of these persons in illegal activities and receiving monetary rewards for the preparation of custom -made publications from a citizen of Belarus, permanently living in Moscow. The investigation believes that the main motive for their illegal activity was a material interest," the press release was noted.

Articles of the detainees, notes the Belarusian portal "Sputnik", differed in a pro -Russian position. In the Belarusian expert circles, the Pavlovts is called the adherent of the "Russian world".