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Belarus The Media
In late 1992, Belarus had 586 officially approved
periodicals: 140 in Belarusian, 159 in Russian, and 241 in
both
Belarusian and Russian. Other publications combined
Russian with
another language or were published in English, Polish, or
Ukrainian. The only daily newspaper published completely
in
Belarusian was Zvyazda (Star). Other dailies
included
Sovetskaya Belorussiya (Soviet Belorussia) and
Vechernyy Minsk (Evening Minsk), published in
Russian, and
Narodnaya hazyeta (People's Newspaper), published
in both
Belarusian and Russian. Belarus's official news agency is
BelTA
(Belarusian News Agency), and the independent news agency
is
BELAPAN.
In the early to mid-1990s, Belarus had a high level of
censorship in its media. Works no longer had to be
approved
before publication, but all nonfiction materials had to be
presented to the Inspectorate for the Protection of State
Secrets, a small government department subordinate to the
Ministry of Information, which once had been a branch of
Glavlit,
the Soviet censorship body. Most publishing houses in the
country
were funded and controlled by the Ministry of Information.
Data as of June 1995
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