According to Nasha Niva, Yanushkevich was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

On the morning of May 16, the first day of the Book, propagandists Ryhor Azaronak and Lyudmila Gladkaya arrived there.

They clung to the owners of the bookstore for selling historical books in Belarusian.

Their questions were raised by a book about the family of the Radziwill princes, as well as a book with a photo that seemed to Azaronka "very similar to the parade of SS veterans" (in fact, the picture was the entry of Lithuanian troops in Vilnius in 1939).

After lunch, security officers came to the bookstore with a search.

After the search in "Knigauka" the connection with the director

Andrei Yanushkevich

and the employee of the bookstore

Nasta Karnatskaya disappeared.

On May 17, it became known that the security forces detained the publisher Andrei Yanushkevich and confiscated 200 books from him.

Belarus Today ”Lyudmila Gladkaya.

It is unknown under which article Yanushkevich was detained.

According to Gladka, the "cashier of the bookstore", who allegedly "administered a number of extremist resources", was also detained.

The new bookstore opened on May 16 on the street.

Zmitser Byadula, 6 in Minsk.

First of all, it was supposed to be a publishing bookstore, where the publishing house "Yanushkevich" will sell its books and books of "close partners", the publishing house said on social networks.

Yanushkevich Publishing House prepares and publishes a variety of books, mostly in Belarusian.

In January 2021, the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee of Belarus confiscated equipment and blocked the publisher's account, and in June the publisher was notified that it was possible to use the bank account again.

Bookstore Bookstore, where the search took place the day before.

Publisher Andrei Yanushkevich and bookstore employee Nasta Karnatskaya were detained

On March 22, it became known that the Yanushkevich publishing house had been asked to vacate the office at 7A Marieuska Street in Minsk.

After that, the publishing house announced the sale of books and soon a huge queue of buyers gathered under the office, which did not end for several days.

Recently, the Belarusian authorities have suspended the activities of several Belarusian independent publishing houses: "Limarius", "Book Collection", "Goliaths", "Madison".

The formal reason was the violation of the "deadlines for appealing to the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus with a notice of changes in the information to be included in the State Register of Publishers, Producers and Distributors of Printed Publications."