Sale of Orwell's 1984 forbidden in Belarus
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The book had been banned in the Soviet Union until 1987. It was translated in 1992 into Belarusian and became a bestseller. Recently new editions were printed by the Yanushkevich Publishing House. The publisher Andrei Yanushkevich has been detained, following the opening of a bookstore linked to the publishing house. Around 200 books were confiscated and are being evaluated if they contain extremist material.
This is not the first independent publishing house facing repression.