Zviazda

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Zviazda (Belarusian: Звязда) is a state-owned daily newspaper in Belarus.

It was founded by Russian bolsheviki in 1917 as a propaganda media of the Minsk Committee of RSDLP.

Zviazda has been twice closed down by the Russian Provisional Government but continued being published under different names. At some periods of the World War I and the Polish-Soviet war Zviazda was printed in Smalensk.

Since August 1927 the newspaper is printed in Belarusian language only and is nowadays the largest Belarusian language media in Belarus as well as one of the last Belarusian-speaking media.

During World War II remaining communists tried to publish the newspaper illegaly on the territory of Nazi-occupied Belarus.

From July 10, 1944 Zviazda is published in Minsk. Till 1991 it was an official newspaper of the Communist Party of Belarus and the Communist parliament and government of Belarus.

Today Zviazda is one of the official media controlled by president Lukashenka.

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