Vitebsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office issued an official warning to journalist for alleged collaboration with the foreign media, which has not existed for 10 years.

According to the press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

August 20 Stepanova had a conversation with the prosecutor Zaitsev, who gave her a written notice signed by the deputy prosecutor of the region G. Korenkov.

"The prosecutor's office in the area of supervision over the implementation of laws and legality of legal acts established that you have in the current year in the Vitebsk region repeatedly carries out preparation of audio and video, as well as intervyuyavanne population to prepare reports, which are then placed on behalf of the foreign media (Czech version of "Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty") on the corresponding web site, "- said in a paper.

Zaitsev prosecutor did not explain the journalist who carried out the inspection and how the extracted information. Showed only a printout of the survey, conducted in 2008, where Elena Stepanova as an independent journalist, shared his views with colleagues. He said that this is proof of cooperation with foreign media journalist.

Elena Stepanova will appeal the official warning.

"The Czech service of Radio" Liberty ", to my knowledge, been discontinued in 2002. So I physically can not work with her, "- she said.

Helen became the 11 th in a row journalist who officially warned prosecutors in 2012. In August alone, there were three warnings. Apart Stepanova - Tatiana Belashova and Gennady Barbaric, the press office of the NGO "Belarusian Association of Journalists."

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