Nasha Niva

Nasha Niva (Belarusian: [Наша Ніва] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), it means "Our field") was a newspaper in Belarus. It was made in 1906. It was made again in 1991.[2][3][4]

Наша Ніва
Nasha Niva
Nasza Niwa nr 3 z 1907, Wilno.jpg
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)VPUP Surodzichy
EditorYahor Martsinovich
Founded1906
LanguageBelarusian (Taraškievica before 2008)
Circulationover 6,000[1]
Websitenashaniva.com

The website of "Nasha Niva" (nn.by) was made in 1997. This site can't be opened in Belarus.[5] It has been writing about the 2020 Belarusian protests and 2020 Belarusian presidential election.[5] It uses the Belarusian language.[6]

"Nasha Niva" is free of state propaganda.[7][8] It is against Alexander Lukashenko. The government tried to close the newspaper many times. The newspaper got big fines and was left from state circulation. The editors and journalists have been arrested.[9]

As of 2020, the editor-in-chief is Yahor Martsinovich, he came after Andrej Dyńko.[10][11]

2021 attack

On July 8, 2021, the office and the houses of its main people were looked for.[12] Main journalists Yahor Martsinovich, Andrej Dyńko, Andrej Skurko, accountant Volha Rakovich were arrested.[13] "Nasha Niva" said that editor Jahor Marcinovič went through a physical attack.[14] They were called responsible for the 2020 Belarusian protests.[12][13] Several other "Nasha Niva" journalist were detained.[12] Since that day, the domain name was stopped working, the website of "Nasha Niva" can't be opened.[12][14] The Ministry of Information of Belarus made such punishment for "prohibited information" that the website has been having over it.[12]

On July 12, 2021, ten organizations (the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and others) made a joint statement.[15] It said that Yahor Martsinovich, Andrej Dyńko, Andrej Skurko, and Volha Rakovich are political prisoners.[16]

In November 2021, Nasha Niva's Telegram channel and its social networks were declared extremist materials.[17] In January 2022, the KGB declared Nasha Niva an extremist group.[18] Creation of an extremist group or participation in it is a criminal offence in Belarus.[19]

On March 15, 2022, Martsinovich and Skurko were sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for estimated material damage of 10,000 Belarusian rubles ($3000). According to the investigators, in May 2017 they opened offices in Skurko's apartment but kept paying for electricity as individuals, while Belarusian law obliges legal persons to pay increased rates.[20]

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"Nasha Niva" logo in the early 20th century (written in the Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Awards

  • Chief editor Andrej Dyńko got International Award "Freedom of Speech"[21] and Lorenzo Natali Prize (2006);[22]
  • Free Media Award [en] (2007)[23]
  • I Love Belarus (2010)[24]
  • Andrej Dyńko got first prize in ‘Belarus in Focus’ journalist contest (2013)[25]
  • Egor Martinovich got ‘Press Freedom’ award by Reporters Without Borders (2015)[26]
  • Egor Martinovich and Dmitry Pankaviec got BAJ ‘Volnaye Slova’ Award (2015)[27]
  • Natallia Lubneuskaya got the Free Media Award [en] (2021)[28]

Nasha Niva Media

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  4. Unuchak 2017, p. 51-56.
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