Was “LiM” editor-in-chief fired for publishing “wrong” writers?

• 25.09.2009, 14:16

Anatol Kazlou, the editor-in-chief of “Litaratura i mastatstva” newspaper, has been dismissed. Now his duties are performed by Mikalai Stankevich.

As noted by “Nasha Niva” newspaper, leap-frog with editors in “LiM” does not stop since 2002-2003. Then old cadres were dropped from management, and a new “LiM” holding was created.

“Main claims to Anatol Kazlou were about his offering reviews of creative works of writers who are not members of the pro-governmental Union of Writers of Belarus,” blogger uzhyk, an author of “LiM”, a writer Mikhail Yuzhyk, informs.

As said by him, “high-ranking controlling persons of the pro-governmental Belarusian Union of Writers are behind this dismissal”, and primarily a Russian-language poet Anatoly Avrutin.

It should be noted that Avrutin is a secretary of the official Union of Writers.

“Oficials offered to appoint Avrutin the editor-in-chief of “LiM”,” the blogger notes. “We all should be thankful to Ales Karlyukevich, who said that the entire editorial office would submit resignation notices then”.

Mikhail Yuzhyk warns: “In case of Russification of “LiM”, an unprecedented event, unheard-of in history even in the Soviet Union would take place”.