The Information Ministry has suspended the certificate of the Technalohija scientific-production cooperative as a distributor of printed publications.
“The Technalohija scientific-production cooperative missed the deadline for submitting notification of changes to the information that must be included in the State Register of Publishers, Manufacturers and Distributors of Printed Publications, the list of which is approved by the Information Ministry of the Republic of Belarus”, the ministry’s press service said.
The Technalohija scientific-production cooperative was founded in 1988 and became the first private publishing house in Belarus. Its main activities include book publishing (scientific, popular science, reference and literary publications in various languages), printing (production of books, brochures, forms, booklets, prospectuses and calendars), and the supply of medical equipment.
In February, Minsk saw mass detentions of publishers and book distributors. Among those detained were the publishing house’s founder Vaclau Bahdanovich, his wife Alena, and daughters Antanina and Viktoryia. Later, everyone except Viktoryia Bahdanovich was released. The publishing house’s editor-in-chief Dzmitry Sanko was also detained.
On 3 March, the KGB designated as an “extremist formation” the “Coalition of Print Publishers ‘Kamunikat.org Foundation’, ‘Lohvinau Publishing House’, ‘Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing'”. Vaclau Bahdanovich was listed among those allegedly involved in the “formation”.
