The government has been making troubles for Novy Chas all the time. Shortly after its start, Novy Chas was stopped to be printed.[2] The newspaper was warned by the government of Belarus at the end of 2007.[3] In June 2010, the paper was also warned by the Ministry of Information.[4] Then it was took away from stores run by the government.[4]
Since February 2021, the newspaper is taken away from stores run by the government again.[7]
On May 28, 2021, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Belarus Maksim Voronin made a warning to the editor-in-chief of Novy Chas.[8] The official did not like three stories printed in the newspaper in February and April 2021.[8] The warning was written in Russian and had some citations from these Belarusian stories.[8] Their translation from the Belarusian language into the Russian language was wrong, though.[8] On June 7, 2021, Belposhta (Belpost (Belarusian: Белпошта), Belarusian postal service) said no to making an agreement on using its subscription services for the second half of 2021 to the office of Novy Chas.[9]
On August 10, 2021, it became known that there will be no newspaper in the print form after August 12.[10] The private printing house "Roll Print" wrote a letter about it on July 27.[10] The printing house ran into troubles in the process of printing, so it became not possible to stick to the agreement on printing, it said.[10]Novy Chas tried to find a new printing house but did not make it.[10]Novy Chas promised that its website and social network services would be kept going.[10]
On October 19–20, 2021, the Novy Chas office and the houses of its journalist were looked for.[11] The people were interrogated.[12][11]Computers and other things were taken away.[11] The European Federation of Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, the Belarusian Association of Journalists said bad words on that.[12]
On October 28, 2021, the domain name of Novy Chas novychas.by was stopped working in Belarus and other countries of the world.[13] As a result, its journalists had to make another website of Novy Chas.[14] It is novychas.online.[14]
In January 2024, it became known that the website and Internet pages of Novy Chas were banned in Belarus.[15] Earlier in 2023, the newspaper's Telegram channel,[16] its Odnoklassniki group,[17] Instagram page[18] and TikTok account[19] were banned as well.
↑ 8.08.18.28.3Shustin, Aaron (2021-06-02). "ЖУРНАЛИСТЫ ИЛИ ЭКСТРЕМИСТЫ?" (in Russian). Independent Israeli site / אתר ישראלי עצמאי / Независимый израильский сайт / Незалежны iзраiльскi сайт. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-06-07.