Vitebsk printing house refused to print the notebooks for the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Orsha

The reason for refusal was the "We have an alliance with Russia".

This was reported to charter97.org by Vladimir, the person who created notebooks and albums with drawings of Belarusian national symbols on them.

"They said, well, we will not take your order because “we take care of you not to have any problems, as both you and I have kids”. They have explained the rejection as follows: “We have an alliance with Russia”. Other arguments were: "Do you want to have the same as in Ukraine?", "Does Belarus have any relation to Grand Duchy of Lithuania?", "Why do not you make a normal notebook about the Great Patriotic War?" and other similar reasons,” - he said.

According to Vladimir, in Vitebsk typography he was advised to print notebooks in Smolensk.