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Babruisk Courier’s Chief Editor Suspected Of Parasitism

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Babruisk Courier’s Chief Editor Suspected Of Parasitism
ANATOL SANATSENKA
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Anatol Sanatsenka has been asked to come to the tax office for questioning “within the shortest possible period of time.”

Chief editor of Babruisk Courier Anatol Sanatsenka found in his mailbox a notice from the Babruisk Inspectorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties. It had a “symbolic” number 4.4.15 / 1937, the press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.

The independent periodical’s head was offered to come to the tax office for questioning “within the shortest possible period of time.”

Babruisk tax authorities are interested in Anatol Sanatsenka’s “participation in the financing of public expenditures.”

According to Sanatsenka, now he is the head of a publishing company, and he has been in charge since May 2003.

“In addition to this, – Anatol Sanatsenka says, – starting from September 2012 I am a member of the creative union, namely the Union of Belarusian Writers. And in December 2014 I became a member of another creative writers' organization – the Belarusian PEN-center.

I never hid this fact, so to say, it is widely known to the “public,” as this information can be found everywhere: in all of my profiles, on the Babruisk Courier website and on my pages in social networks. But the Bobruisk tax inspection, as can be judged by the warning, that came to my home address, looks right through it.

Now I have to enter into unnecessary correspondence, to explain to the inspectorate employees, that their anti-constitutional requirements to pay the fee for the right of residence in the country are, figuratively speaking, out in left field.”

“My status as the chief editor, director of the company and writer, member of the Creative Union falls outside of their demands, which, by the way, contradict Article 41 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. This article deals with the right of citizens to work – a right, but not an obligation,” – the chief editor of Babruisk Courier explains.

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