{"id":55121,"date":"2014-02-17T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=55121"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:54:57","slug":"belarus-time-media-reform-27-feb-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=55121","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Time For Media Reform (27 Feb, London)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54742\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/belarus-report-cover.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54742\" class=\"wp-image-54742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/belarus-report-cover.png\" alt=\"Read the full text of the policy paper \u201cBelarus: Time for media reform\u201d here. | \u041f\u043e\u045e\u043d\u044b \u0442\u044d\u043a\u0441\u0442 \u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0456\u0442\u044b\u0447\u043d\u0430\u0433\u0430 \u0434\u0430\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0443 \u201c\u0417\u0430 \u0440\u044d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u044b \u043c\u0435\u0434\u044b\u044f \u045e \u0411\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u0456\u201d \u043c\u043e\u0436\u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0447\u044b\u0446\u044c \u0442\u0443\u0442.\" width=\"700\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/belarus-report-cover.png 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/belarus-report-cover-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/belarus-report-cover-250x170.png 250w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/belarus-report-cover-292x200.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IDX_Belarus_ENG_WebRes_FINAL.pdf\">Read the full text of the policy paper \u201cBelarus: Time for media reform\u201d here<\/a>. | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Belarus-media-freedom_BY.pdf\">\u041f\u043e\u045e\u043d\u044b \u0442\u044d\u043a\u0441\u0442 \u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0456\u0442\u044b\u0447\u043d\u0430\u0433\u0430 \u0434\u0430\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0443 \u201c\u0417\u0430 \u0440\u044d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u044b \u043c\u0435\u0434\u044b\u044f \u045e \u0411\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u0456\u201d \u043c\u043e\u0436\u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0447\u044b\u0446\u044c \u0442\u0443\u0442<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Following launches in Minsk and Brussels, join Index on Censorship for the UK launch of our important new policy paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IDX_Belarus_ENG_WebRes_FINAL.pdf\">\u2018Belarus: Time For Media Reform\u2019<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Belarus continues to have one of the most restrictive and hostile media environments in Europe. Recent years have brought no genuine improvements to the media situation. In a country that has not held a free and fair election since 1994 the authorities keep tight control over the media as a means of preserving their power.<\/p>\n<p>Join us to ask:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>What are the key challenges for media freedom in Belarus?<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Does the internet change the rules of the game?\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>What trends is Belarus setting for other authoritarian regimes?<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>How should the EU and the international community respond? <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/charter97.org\/en\/news\/2013\/10\/8\/77176\/\">Andrei Bastunets<\/a> (Belarusian Association of Journalists, Minsk) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/andrei-aliaksandrau\/\">Andrei Aliaksandrau<\/a> (Index on Censorship, London).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday 27th February 2014, 18:30 \u2013 20:00 inc. drinks<br \/>\n<strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA<br \/>\n<strong>TICKETS:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/belarus-time-for-media-reform-tickets-10645602283\">RSVP\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>@IndexEvents \u2013 #Belarus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Presented in collaboration with the Belarusian Association of Journalists<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BAJ.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BAJ.png\" alt=\"BAJ\" width=\"159\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BAJ.png 159w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BAJ-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following launches in Minsk and Brussels, join Index on Censorship for the UK launch of our important new policy paper \u2018Belarus: Time For Media Reform\u2019. Belarus continues to have one of the most restrictive and hostile media environments in Europe. Recent years have brought no genuine improvements to the media situation. In a country that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55121"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87818,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121\/revisions\/87818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}