''Zvyazda'' ( be, Звязда, , literally: ''"The Star"'') is a

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daily newspaper in

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''Zvyazda'' was founded in 1917 as an organ of the

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative stat ...

Committee of

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...

(

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). ''Zvyazda'' was twice closed down by the

Russian Provisional Government The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately ...

but continued being published under different names. At some periods of

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and the Polish-Soviet war Zvyazda was printed in

Smolensk Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest ...

. From 10 July 1944 ''Zvyazda'' has been published in

. Until 1991 it was an official newspaper of the

Communist Party of Belarus The Communist Party of Belarus (CPB; russian: Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия Белару́си, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belarusi; be, Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі, Kamunistyčnaja Partyja B ...

and the Communist parliament and government of Belarus. During the Soviet era, the paper received the Order of the Great Patriotic War and the

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

. Since August 1927 the newspaper has been printed in

Belarusian language Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some ...

only. It is the only daily newspaper published in the Belarusian language in the country. During

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remaining communist party members tried to publish the newspaper illegally on the territory of Nazi-occupied Belarus. ''Zvyazda'' is owned by the Belarus government. In 2012 its print run was reduced to 30,000 copies. In August 2020, during the first weeks of mass protests in Belarus, journalists of ''Zvyazda'' made joint statements calling to stop violence against protesters, stop harassment on journalists and state censorship. After a few days editor-in-chief Pavel Sukharukau was forced to resign and was replaced by the former minister of information Aliaksandr Karlyukevich.Главного редактора газеты «Звязда» Павла Сухорукова уволили. Его место занял бывший министр информации
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