Police Detained Russian Journalists In Minsk Press Club

They were taken to the Savietski district police department.

An open lecture on the work of small media was supposed to be held in the Belarus Press Club in Minsk. Authors of the Russian almanac, moloko plus, were invited as the speakers, baj.by reports.

Police officers came to the premises of the Belarus Press Club and took away the coordinators of the moloko plus project, Pavel Nikulin and Yan Potarsky.

The detainees were taken to the Savietski district police department. The police refused to give the reason for the detention.

SOURCE: BAJ.BY

Moloko plus is a non-profit-making almanac dedicated to the problems of violence. According to the editorial staff, professional journalists and journalists who are tired of censorship and a biased agenda in Russian federal media work on it. Its authors find out what is behind journalistic clichés, returning reflection to journalism.

Three issues of the almanac have already been released: “Terrorism,” “Drugs” and “Revolution.” The team is working on the fourth one – “Patriarchate.”

At the lecture in Minsk, the editors planned to tell how to raise money for one’s own project, organize work with an independent editorial team and cope with legal, ethical and economic problems, as well as why editing small media is cool.

Coordinators Pavel Nikulin and Jan Potarsky came to the meeting.