Bookstore Lohvinau

The Supreme Court of Belarus upholds the ruling of the Minsk Economic Court to award a $63000 fine to the independent publishing house.

The publisher wanted to appeal the decision of the Ministry of Information to refuse to register him as a distributor of printed editions.

This is according to the site created to support the fined store.

On Tuesday, in Minsk, he held a press conference where he asked for help from the public.

The publisher was given a 5 million rubles fine and ordered to pay the state 961 million rubles of profit.

The owner of the book shop Lohvinau is accused of selling books without a license from information ministry.

Euroradio explains the claims of the tax authorities and why Belarusians need the Lohvinau bookstore so much.

The case will be considered in the Economic Court. Tax inspectors demand almost a billion roubles from the bookshop.

The trial will be held in the Economic Court.