Nasha Niva

Наша Ніва
Nasha Niva

Type	Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)	VPUP Surodzichy
Editor	Yahor Martsinovich
Founded	1906
Language	Belarusian (Taraškievica before 2008)
Circulation	over 6,000
Website	nashaniva.com

Nasha Niva (Belarusian: Наша Ніва, romanized: Naša Niva, it means "Our field") was a newspaper in Belarus. It was made in 1906. It was made again in 1991.

The website of "Nasha Niva" (nn.by) was made in 1997. This site can't be opened in Belarus. It has been writing about the 2020 Belarusian protests and 2020 Belarusian presidential election. It uses the Belarusian language.

"Nasha Niva" is free of state propaganda. It is against Alexander Lukashenko. The government tried to close the newspaper many times. The newspaper got big fines and was left from state circulation. The editors and journalists have been arrested.

As of 2020, the editor-in-chief is Yahor Martsinovich, he came after Andrej Dyńko.

2021 attack

On July 8, 2021, the office and the houses of its main people were looked for. Main journalists Yahor Martsinovich, Andrej Dyńko, Andrej Skurko, accountant Volha Rakovich were arrested. "Nasha Niva" said that editor Jahor Marcinovič went through a physical attack. They were called responsible for the 2020 Belarusian protests. Several other "Nasha Niva" journalist were detained. Since that day, the domain name was stopped working, the website of "Nasha Niva" can't be opened. The Ministry of Information of Belarus made such punishment for "prohibited information" that the website has been having over it.

On July 12, 2021, ten organizations (the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and others) made a joint statement. It said that Yahor Martsinovich, Andrej Dyńko, Andrej Skurko, and Volha Rakovich are political prisoners.

In November 2021, Nasha Niva's Telegram channel and its social networks were declared extremist materials. In January 2022, the KGB declared Nasha Niva an extremist group. Creation of an extremist group or participation in it is a criminal offence in Belarus.

On March 15, 2022, Martsinovich and Skurko were sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for estimated material damage of 10,000 Belarusian rubles ($3000). According to the investigators, in May 2017 they opened offices in Skurko's apartment but kept paying for electricity as individuals, while Belarusian law obliges legal persons to pay increased rates.

"Nasha Niva" logo in the early 20th century (written in the Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Editors office after police search, 2010

Awards

• Chief editor Andrej Dyńko got International Award "Freedom of Speech" and Lorenzo Natali Prize (2006);
• Free Media Award (2007)
• I Love Belarus (2010)
• Andrej Dyńko got first prize in ‘Belarus in Focus’ journalist contest (2013)
• Egor Martinovich got ‘Press Freedom’ award by Reporters Without Borders (2015)
• Egor Martinovich and Dmitry Pankaviec got BAJ ‘Volnaye Slova’ Award (2015)
• Natallia Lubneuskaya got the Free Media Award (2021)

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Other websites

• Nasha Niva Online
• Interview with Andrey Dynko Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
• The Prague Society for International Cooperation
• The History of Naša Niva from 1906 to the Present Day Archived 2020-06-29 at the Wayback Machine