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

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daily newspaper in Belarus.

History and profile

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

( Bolsheviks). ''Zvyazda'' was twice closed down by the Russian Provisional Government but continued being published under different names. At some periods of World War I and the Polish-Soviet war Zvyazda was printed in Smolensk. From 10 July 1944 ''Zvyazda'' has been published in Minsk. 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 The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisan ...

and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Since August 1927 the newspaper has been printed in Belarusian language only. It is the only daily newspaper published in the Belarusian language in the country. During World War II 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 Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

.Главного редактора газеты «Звязда» Павла Сухорукова уволили. Его место занял бывший министр информации
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Zviazda on-line
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History and profile

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