Access to Kyky.org may be restored 'within days'

The access to Kyky.org may be restored this week, editor of the resource Pavel Svyardlou told Euroradio after a conversation with officials of the Ministry of Information.

“The Ministry of information has received our letter and is going to check whether we have really corrected everything,” Pavel said. “But they cannot do it because our website is redirecting them from kyky.org to kyky.io. They told us that we had to give them access to kyky.org first and change a few articles containing bad language as well as remove comments containing foul words.”

If the officials see that everything has been done, they will order to unban the website. ISPs will have three days to do it. It means that the access to kyky.org will be restored in 4 days. 

“Naturally, it will be done if they are satisfied with the way the bad words have been changed,” Svyardlou joked.

The website kyky.org was blocked on June 18 (the Ministry of Information had ordered it on June 15). Officials reacted to readers’ complaints about the article about the celebration of the anniversary of the victory in the WWII – One’s Feat Is Always Other’s Crime.

The journalists got to know about it from readers and colleagues. They had not received two warnings although it must be done according to the Belarusian legislation.

“They can only pronounce warnings to websites in the segment ‘.by’,” Pavel Svyardlou quoted the officials. “Our website is in the segment ‘.org’ and they could not pronounce a warning to us. The only thing they could do is ban the website and so they did.”

Belarusian readers can access the website kyky.org at kyky.io now.