copies was confiscated by police on 9 January. When citizens of Salihorsk began a petition on the paper's behalf, police made visits to the homes of the signatories to interrogate them. In March 2006 in Minsk several thousand copies of the newspaper were confiscated by the police. On 13 March 2006, a week before the presidential election that would usher in Lukashenko's third term, Narodnaja Volya, BDG, and Tovarishch had their print runs abruptly cancelled by their Smolensk supplier. Kalinkina told The New York Times that she believed Belarusian government pressure to be responsible, saying, "When, a week before the election, someone refuses to print three papers, it is clear there are political reasons." In the same week the publication was shut down. Since November 2005 the runs dropped from 70 to 15 thousand. In Autumn 2006 the web site was launched. In December 2008 the newspaper was allowed to be sold through subscription and state newsstands. The circulation boosted from 9 to 19 thousand in a few days. On December 11, 2009, a bomb threat call was made to the editors office, causing an evacuation of the staff. During the evacuation chief editor Svetlana Kalinkina’s office had been broken into. 2010s The presidential election 2010 in Belarus was scheduled on December, 19. The election period was marked with severe oppression of press and independent media. In April 2010, computers were seized from Kalinkina and Koktysh, as well as Charter 97 editor Natalya Radina and Novaya Gazeta journalist Irina Khalip as part of an investigation into a slander case filed by Ivan Korzh. The four were also brought to a police station for questioning. In September, Kalinkina wrote an article investigating the recent suspicious death of Charter 97 editor-in-chief Aleh Byabenin, and received several death threats shortly after, prompting the human rights organization Norwegian Helsinki Committee to issue an alert on her behalf. Harassment of press and journalists In 2010 the newspaper received four official warnings from the government. On April 7, 2010, the picket of veterans took place in front of the editors office. The veterans, supported by unknown sportive-looking young men, protested against the publication of chapters from Ilya Kopil’s book on the Second World War, accusing it for propaganda of fascism and falsification of history. The book described how some German soldiers showed mercy to the Belarusian civilians during the war, while some of Belarusian partisans were