Narodnaja Volya (newspaper)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | broadsheet |
| Editor | Svetlana Kalinkina (2004-present) |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Political alignment | opposition to Alexander Lukashenko |
| Language | Belarusian, Russian |
| Headquarters | Minsk, Belarus |
| Circulation | 55,000 |
| Website | www |
Narodnaja Volya (Belarusian and Russian: Наро́дная во́ля; Belarusian pronunciation: [naˈrodnaja ˈvolʲa]; English: "The People's Will") is an independent newspaper founded by Iosif Seredich and originally printed in Vilnius, Lithuania. Its circulation is 55,000. In November 1997, printing was moved to Minsk, Belarus in the private publishing house "Magic". It became Belarus' largest independent newspaper. Seredich served as the editor-in-chief, and the deputy chief editor was Viktor Svirko.
On June 18, 2002, a Belarus district court froze the Narodnaya Volya bank account because of defamation charges brought by two judges from Zhodzina. The judges sought 2.5 million rubles in damages.
On November 17, 2003, the Minsk City Court on 17 ordered Narodnaya Volya to pay 50 million Belarusian rubles in damages for libel against Yahor Rybakou, the chairman of the Belarusian State Television and Radio Company (BDT). The Court also ordered Narodnaya Volya journalist Maryna Koktysh and former television host Eleanora Yazerskaya to pay 3 million Belarusian rubles each to Rybakou.
Following a campaign of government harassment against her previous paper, Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta, International Press Freedom Award laureate Svetlana Kalinkina accepted an editorial position at Narodnaja Volya in 2004. In October 2005, pressure from the Information Ministry prevented Belarusian printers from working with the paper, forcing Kalinkina to contract with a printer in Smolensk, Russia. Beginning on 1 January 2006, the Belarusian post office refused to distribute the paper, and an entire print run of 30,000 copies was confiscated by police on 9 January. When citizens of Salihorsk began a petition on the paper's behalf, police made visits to the homes of the signatories to interrogate them.
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