Belarus Today

{{Short description|Belarusian state run media enterprise}} {{redirect|Sovetskaya Belorussiya|the satirical parody|Sovetskaya Belorussiya (Telegram channel)}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Belarus Today{{break}}СБ. Беларусь сегодня | logo = | image = | caption = | type = State run media enterprise | format = Print, Radio, Television, Online | founded = August 2, 1927 | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = Presidential Administration of Belarus | editor = Dzmitry Zhuk | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = | language = Russian | political_position = Marxism-Leninism (1927-1991)<br />Belarus (since 1994) | publishing_country = {{flagdeco|Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic}} Byelorussian SSR (1927-1991)<br />{{flagdeco|Belarus}} Belarus (since 1991) | circulation = | headquarters = | website = {{URL|https://www.sb.by}} Official Website }}

'''''Belarus Today'''''{{efn|Sometimes referred to as ''SB. Belarus Today''}} ({{langx|be|СБ. Беларусь сегодня|SB. Bielaruś siehodnia}}; {{langx|ru|Беларусь Сегодня|italic=yes}}) is a state run publisher in Belarus; it controls numerous media entities such as their current namesake publication ''Belarus Today''.<ref>{{Citation | title=Издательский дом "Беларусь сегодня" | url=https://org.sb.by/ru/ | access-date=9 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Monitoring of Pro-Russian Propaganda in Belarusian Media |date=June 3, 2019 |website=Belarusian Association of Journalists |url=https://baj.by/en/analytics/monitoring-pro-russian-propaganda-belarusian-media |access-date=9 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210115909/https://baj.media/en/analytics/monitoring-pro-russian-propaganda-belarusian-media |archive-date=10 December 2023}}</ref>

It was named ''Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya'' previously.

Dzmitry Zhuk, the editor-in-chief of Sovetskaya Belorussiya, came under EU and Swiss sanctions in summer 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2024/2116/oj|title=Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2116 of 26 July 2024|publisher=EUR-Lex|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/en/home/seco/nsb-news.msg-id-102080.html|title=Ordinance on measures against Belarus|publisher=State Secretariat for Economic Affairs|language=en}}</ref>

==See also== * Mass media in Belarus

==Editorial Board== * Editor-in-Chief — Dmitry Alexandrovich Zhuk (since 2018) * First Deputy Editor-in-Chief — Mikhail Petrovich Lebedik * Deputy Editors-in-Chief — Alexander Mikhailovich Taranda, Sergey Alexandrovich Gordienko, Galina Mikhailovna Toropetskaya

==History== The newspaper has been published since August 9, 1927. Until 1937, it was known as Rabochy (“The Worker”). From 1937 to 2018, it was titled Soviet Belarus. In September 2018, the name was changed to Soviet Belarus — Belarus Today (SB. Belarus Today). Since 1943, the newspaper has been published in both Belarusian and Russian. In 1964, it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Since 2000, the newspaper has been published in color format. In 2013, it was merged with four other major publications (Narodnaya Gazeta, Respublika, Selskaya Gazeta, and Znamya Yunosti) into a single media holding: Belarus Today.

==Projects== In partnership with Soviet Belarus, several media projects were launched, including the newspaper Soyuz, the magazine Spetsnaz, and the English-language newspaper The Minsk Times.

The Belarus Today Publishing House also participates in a historical archival project, “Partisans of Belarus,” in cooperation with the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus. The project aims to digitize personnel records of decorated Belarusian partisans and underground resistance members, ultimately creating a publicly accessible online database enriched with newly digitized archival documents.

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==Further reading== * Szostek, J. (2015). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/48610441 Russian influence on news media in Belarus]. ''Communist and Post-Communist Studies'', '''48'''(2/3), 123–135.

==External links== * [https://www.sb.by/ Official site]

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