Dmitry Belenky

Affiliated media: Pressball, Deputy Chief Editor

Incident date: January 4, 2021

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Dmitry Belenky, the deputy editor-in-chief of the sports news website Pressball, resigned from the publication after 30 years. After the departure of editor-in-chief Dmitry Gerchikov in early December 2020, several issues of the newspaper were published under Belenky’s management. Subsequently, state television correspondent Sergei Lisichkin became the new editor-in-chief. Most of the publication's journalists opposed this appointment, but he was soon introduced to the team by the deputy chairman of the Belarusian Football Federation association, Mikhail Botnikov.