Pozirk

News agency in Belarus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pozirk (/pózirk/, Belarusian: Позірк) is a Belarusian independent news agency reporting in Russian, Belarusian and English,[1][2] founded by former employees of BelaPAN and its online newspaper Naviny.by.[3][4][5]

History

On October 16, 2023, Pozirk launched the website Pozirk.online. However, on December 5 of the same year, the Central District Court in Minsk declared the website "extremist material". Since February 2024, users in Belarus can only access it through VPN services.[4][5]

On December 19, 2024, the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs designated the whole Pozirk news agency as an extremist group.[6][7]

BelaPAN journalists and editors were forced to flee Belarus as the government banned the country's oldest independent news agency in 2021.[6]

Name

"Pozirk" means "look", "glance" or "gaze" in Belarusian.[8]

References

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