Orshatut.by site there are more than three years. In addition to news , it placed private ads and advertising of goods and services. One of the advertisers are advised to refuse to cooperate . This, according to the founder of the site, due to the election campaign.

Founder of the site said Victor Andreev : " I was approached by a man and said that he refused to advertise on the site. This was strange, since our collaboration lasted more than one month . And the man explained that he had been warned of the KGB , they say , the site " is not entirely then , "and that there was no trouble, should be removed from there advertising. course, he agreed. But in this form of discontent website activity nobody has expressed ."

With certain obstacles site staff encountered before: for example, one teacher from Orsha schools criticized for an interview about school amateur , student or graduate intimidated that he did not go to college if your article about the campaign against smoking place on this resource and not on the site BRYU TOE .

" But that in such a categorical manner , and with reference to the KGB reported to me that 's some harmful or dangerous - this has not happened . Probably an attempt to pressure before the election , as our independent resource , and one of the latest materials was message picket campaign "Tell the Truth " in Orsha. or maybe just someone does not like that we place critical materials on urban issues . anyway , but I want our readers to know about the pressure to the site and therefore I wrote an open letter to him , "- says Victor Andreev .

In this letter, the founder of Orsha site last independent trade union activist, mentions that independent media in Orsha has been historically hostile. In the 1990s, Victor Andreev was the editor and publisher of the " Kutsejna " with which the problems started after critical articles about the then chairman of the executive committee. Finally newspaper denied registration , and later failed to register even a magazine about utilities.

Viasna Human Rights Center