Authorities censoring literature

The Ministries of Information, Culture and Education must coordinate their actions on selling socially important literature at the Belarusian market. This instruction was given today by Belarusian prime minister Syarhei Sidorski at the session of the Council of Ministers of Belarus.

The three ministries must draw up a programme on purchasing of socially important literature, which is kept in stocks of the publishing houses of the Ministry of Information.

Besides, the prime minister ordered to determine a necessary amount of finance to buy socially important literature for libraries, and make forward proposals to the government, if necessary.

Syarhei Sidorski emphasised that publishing houses of Belarus should perform their own orders. It should be informatory literature of high quality. In this connection the Union of Writers of Belarus offered to analyse contents of books, published in the republic.

The prime minister ordered to monitor sort and amount of literature that public libraries need. It’s possible that 1 or 2 copies of, for example, an encyclopaedia are needed, not 10 ones, Syarhei Sidorski said.