State Propaganda Praised Svyatlana Kalinkina for Efficiency and Courage

It believes that her decision to quit Belarusian Partisan and transfer to .by, switching-off comments was right.

The situation with the Belarusian Partisan, which was blocked by the Ministry of Information, and then moved to the domain .by was discussed in the program "Club of Editors" on BT TV channel.

Sovetskaya Belorussia cites from the program.

The editor-in-chief of Sovetskaya Belorussia Pavel Yakubovich said:

- I think the decision of the editor-in-chief of Belarusian Partisan was very businesslike. She showed such a serious approach to her site. She entered the domain extension .by. This is no longer a broadcasting structure that is located somewhere in Argentina or on the islands. Today it is the Belarusian broadcasting structure; and it is in the area of the Belarusian legislation and the Belarusian rules. Now it will be easy both for the site and its visitors.

Given forums, it is an audacious gesture. It is often better not to have any feedback than to those not reflecting the public opinion. But we have talked a lot about it...

When Kalinkina removed the "exchange of views", she made an audacious gesture aimed to make her site more interesting.

Belta General Director Dzmitry Zhuk reminded that materials of BelTA, with the exception of blogger texts, never had had forums. And now some media refuse them, as "the tail starts wagging the dog": "People discuss not journalistic materials, but what they say about them in these comments. Thus, an editorial office loses its influence on the society".

Yakubovich summed up:

— Nobody sets a task to make the Belarusian Partisan change. Please, write. But she crossed the line. First, the resource has become legal and reliable. Second, after the refusal of the heavy heritage in the form of completely unacceptable forums, the Belarusian partisan becomes a participant of our information field. Let her write articles that do not contradict the law, and we will read them and agree or disagree.