Belarus declared safest country for media

4 октября 2022
Over the past quarter of a century, no journalist has died while performing his duties in Belarus. No neighboring country can boast of that, said General Director of the agency Minsk-News, chairman of the Belarusian Union of Journalists Andrey Krivosheev.

But what is happening outside the country is bewildering. Blocking of certain Belarusian journalists' accounts and even unconcealed calls to kill on the grounds of nationality (all Russians, for example) - this used to be considered fascism, Nazism and xenophobia, but today the EU virtually turns a blind eye to it all.

"The EU General Court has recognized the illegality of sanctions and restrictions against the Belarusian journalists," said Andrey Krivosheev. - "But you understand that in this new "normality," or the new "abnormality" that our colleagues, especially from the EU, have built, they are like a stone wall. They can simply turn a blind eye and not react to the preparation of the assassination attempt on our colleague or to the preparation of the assassination attempt on the heads of the largest Belarusian media holdings. 

As an example, the Chairman of the Belarusian Union of Journalists cited an act of terrorism against Russian journalist and political analyst Darya Dugina. "Have you seen the reaction of the International Federation of Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists to this bloody murder, this terrorist attack? - Andrey Krivosheyev asked. - They came up with some silly wording about Darya's father being a philosopher who's close to Putin. So what? So is it a grounds for killing his child through an act of terror? I mean, what are you calling for? If you allow for such a possibility, does that mean that any journalist who is a member of the European Federation of Journalists or the International Federation of Journalists can be executed on the same grounds?"