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Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus Segodnya is a daily newspaper in Belarus. The circulation of the newspaper in April 2019 was 190 thousand copies. Presidential Administration of Belarusan Union has described Sovetskaya Belorussiya as the “main propaganda newspaper” in Belarus. Style Large photographs of President Alexander Lukashenko regularly appear on the front page, and his speeches are quoted extensively in the inside pages, filling pages with the texts of presidential decrees and the laws passed by parliament. The editor-in-chief, Pavel Yakubovich, is a personal appointee of Lukashenko. Yakubovich says he will remain in the post “until he gets tired of me”. He even admitted that his newspaper can adopt a critical tone when it comes to directors of government corporations, mayors and members of the parliament, but not can it criticize the actions of the head of state. Criticism, accusations of propaganda As part of the international sanctions against the regime in Belarus following a crackdown of the opposition following the 2010 Belarusian presidential election, several senior editors of Sovetskaya Belorussiya (Pavel Yakubovich, deputy editors-in-chief Aliaksandr Taranda and Siarhei Gardzienka, deputy editors Halina Tarapetskaya and Hanna Shadryna) were banned from Entering the European Union between 2011 and 2016. More editorial staff of Sovetskaya Belorussia was sanctioned by the EU in 2011 than of any other Belarusian media outlet.Respublika (Рэспубліка) OUT OF CIRCULATIONBelorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta is a now-defunct, business-oriented daily Russian-language newspaper based in Minsk, Belarus, known for its criticisms of President Alexander Lukashenko’s government. The print edition of BDG had largely disappeared from Belarus by September 2004, leaving only the website.
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