Nascha Niwa

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Nascha Niwa
Logo of Nascha Niwa in Łacinka notation
description newspaper
publishing company VPUP Surodsitschy
First edition November 10, 1906, founded in
1991
Editor-in-chief Yegor Martinovich
Web link www.nashaniva.by (Belarusian) , (Russian edition)
First edition of the Nascha Niwa

Nascha Niwa ( Belarusian Наша Ніва, German "Our corridor") is the oldest newspaper in Belarus . Nascha Niwa played a central role as a political and cultural medium in the "time of the Belarusian rebirth" (Belarusian Адраджэньне / Адраджэнне ). The weekly paper appears both in print and on the Internet.

history

Nascha Niwa, originally an organ of the Belarusian Socialist Hramada , first appeared on November 10, 1906 in Vilnius , which at that time had an international cultural presence. The newspaper - titled "Nasza Niwa" in the original spelling - used the Łacinka spelling, which was very much influenced by Polish . The publishers were officially private individuals, as the party was still operating illegally at the time. The initiators of the magazine were the brothers Iwan and Anton Lutskewitsch and Aljaksandar Ulasau , both activists of the Belarusian Socialist Hramada.

The newspaper was aimed at a broad readership, not least the nationally-minded intelligentsia . A lot of space in the reports of the newspaper took up current questions of the life of the Belarusian population as well as the history of Belarus . One of the main themes of the newspaper was the demand for the establishment of a Belarusian-speaking school and a national science , as well as the revitalization of the Belarusian press.

The editorial staff of the newspaper developed into a spiritual center of national revival. Over time , it should include important personalities such as Janka Kupala or Maksim Bahdanowitsch , who had a strong influence on the development of Belarusian culture in the 20th century. The majority of the authors were self-taught . Between 1906 and 1909 the newspaper published 906 reports from 489 villages and small towns. In 1911 the circulation was 3,000 copies.

From the beginning there were always problems with the censors of Tsarist Russia , who at that time carefully observed the editions published in the languages ​​of the national minorities.

With the outbreak of World War I , censorship intensified. Again and again, individual issues were withdrawn because of articles critical of the government. The idea of ​​creating a Belarusian nation-state of its own could no longer be expressed in the newspaper's articles. At the time, government officials were forbidden from subscribing to the newspaper. In the course of the war, the conditions under which the newspaper was published worsened until its publication had to be discontinued in August 1915.

Even after the end of the war and during the entire Soviet period, the newspaper could no longer appear. Although it had clearly seen itself to be left-wing, it was subsequently branded as counterrevolutionary , bourgeois liberal or even nationalist by the official propaganda .

With perestroika and the accompanying wave of a second national rebirth, the first initiatives to re-establish the Nascha Niwa emerged. In 1991 the new Nascha Niwa appeared in Vilnius, the editor-in-chief of which was the Belarusian intellectual, publicist and writer Sjarhej Dubavets .

Today, Nascha Niwa is one of the most important media of the Belarusian intelligentsia, which in addition to news and reports also publishes essays and literary works. However, since 1995 she has been repeatedly exposed to pressure from the Belarusian authorities.

In April 2006, the Minsk city administration tried to close the weekly newspaper on the grounds that its editor-in-chief Andrei Dynko had been arrested a month earlier. His offense was to provide food for opposition protesters. “ Because he was carrying a bag of tea and sandwiches, Dynko was arrested on the bus. For two days his family didn't know where he was. Dynko was detained for ten days. "

Nascha Niwa is one of the few remaining Belarusian periodicals today . Its editor-in-chief has been Andrej Skurko since November 2006 , who until then was Andrej Dynko's deputy.

In November 2008 Nascha Niwa - together with the also opposition newspaper Narodnaja Wolja - was approved again after a three-year hiatus for sales at the state Soyuspechat newspaper kiosks , printing in state printing plants and periodical distribution by the state mail " Belpost ".

Since August 2020, access to the website of Nasha Niwa on the territory of the Republic of Belarus has been blocked because of the portal's reporting on the protests in Belarus in 2020 . On September 23, 2020, security forces searched the apartment of the editor-in-chief Yegor Martinowitsch and confiscated all technical devices and data carriers. He was interrogated by the Investigative Committee and then remained in solitary confinement for three days. He was also prosecuted for defamation. The international organization Reporters Without Borders criticized this policy in relation to Nascha Niwa.

On July 8, 2021, searches were carried out in the office and apartments of key employees. Andrei Dynko , Yegor Martinovich and Andrei Skurko were arrested on charges of organizing protests . Several other journalists from Nascha Niwa were arrested. From that day on, the domain name stopped working and Nascha Niwa's website did not open. The Belarusian Ministry of Information fined the editorial staff for "prohibited information" allegedly posted on the website.

Honourings and prices

  • Editor-in-chief Andrej Dynko received the International Freedom of Speech Prize and the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize in 2006
  • Gerd Bucerius Free Press Prize (2007)
  • "I love Belarus" (2010)
  • Yegor Martinowitsch received the "Press Freedom" award from Reporters Without Borders (2015)
  • Yegor Martinowitsch and Dmitry Pankaviec received the "Volnaya Slowa" Prize of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (2015)
  • Andrej Dynko received the first prize in the journalists' competition "Belarus in Focus"

Web links

Commons : Nasha Niva  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Rainer Lindner: Historians and rule: nation building and history politics in Belarus in the 19th and 20th centuries . Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999, p. 99f.
  2. ↑ Siarhiej Prytycki: A bag with sandwiches . Belarus bans the country's oldest newspaper . In: " Berliner Zeitung ", April 22, 2006.
  3. ↑ Belorussky Partisan: Власти обещают вернуть "Нашу ниву» и «Народную волю» в систему распространения ( Memento of 13 December 2013, Internet Archive ), belaruspartisan.org 21 November, 2008.
  4. ↑ Information Ministry about blocked websites: Creating conflict between society and state. In: Belsat TV . Retrieved September 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c Criticism of Lukashenko's media policy ( de ) Reporters Without Borders . October 6, 2020. Archived from the original on October 6, 2020. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Massive crackdown on independent media throughout Belarus ( en ) Belsat TV . July 8, 2021. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  7. ↑ Силовики пришли в Édition "Наша Ніва": у сотрудников и в офисе провели обыски, сайт недоступен (обновляется) ( ru ) ZERKALO.IO. July 8, 2021. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  8. ↑ Главный редактор белорусскоязычной еженедельной газеты "Наша ніва" Андрей Дынько стал лауреатом ежегодной международной премии "Свобода высказывания" ( ru ) Naviny.by . November 22, 2006. Archived from the original on October 3, 2020. Retrieved on August 2, 2020.
  9. ↑ Белорусский журналист Андрей Дынько удостоен премии Еврокомиссии имени Лоренцо Натали ( ru ) TUT.BY . Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Наша Ніва" получила международное признание ( ru ) Deutsche Welle . June 21, 2007. Accessed August 2, 2020.
  11. ↑ Прэмію "Люблю Беларусь" нарэшце ўручылі ляўрэатам ( be ) Radio Free Europe . February 20, 2010. Archived from the original on March 20, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  12. ↑ Наталья Радина и Егор Мартинович стали лауреатами премии "Свобода прессы" организации "Репортеры без границ" ( ru ) Weißrussischer journalists association . December 11, 2015. Accessed August 2, 2020.
  13. ↑ Журналисты "НН" Мартинович, Гордиенко и Панковец - среди победителей конкурса "Вольнае слова" ( ru ) In: Nasha Niva . Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ Шеф-редактор "Нашай нівы" победил в журналистском конкурсе Belarus in Focus ( ru ) Салiдарнасць. March 16, 2013. Accessed August 24, 2020.