the accused of treason oppositionist Andrei Sannikov and Mikola Statkevich pleaded for absolution. Belarusian president avoided an answer with a sarcastic comment that one should sleep with him to know the quality of his sleep. In 2015 at a press conference Lukashenko said to Siaredzich that he knows nothing about any oppression against the newspaper and he would not prosecute it for publishing the opposition views. Temporary liberalization On April 1, 2016, Svetlana Kalinkina resigned from her post of editorial director. According to the mutual agreement with the editor's office, she kept cooperating with Narodnaja Volya as a journalist. In July of the same year the paper started using bigger fonts to improve readability for the sake of senior readers. On the New Year’s Eve 2017 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich sponsored a 6-month subscription on Narodnaja Volya to 108 regional libraries in Belarus. In 2017 Iosif Siaredzich was invited for a private meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, where the president reassured that no oppression on independent and opposition press would be done. Lukashenko said that his blood boiled when he read ‘false news and reports’ in Narodnaja Volya, but still, he promised to return 8 publications in state subscription catalogues. In December 2018 the newspaper launched a crowdfunding campaign to subscribe all rural, district and regional libraries to Narodnaja Volya. The initiative aimed to give access to the publication to people with low income, who couldn’t afford to buy the newspaper. Further pressure On August 25, 2020, the Belarusian Press House refused to print the latest issue of Narodnaja Volya, as if due to a breakdown of the printing press. Within the same timeframe and for the same reason, three issues of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus and one for BelGazeta and Svobodnye Novosti Plus each were not published – all four newspapers covered the 2020–21 Belarusian protests. In August 2021 Siaredzich was refused accreditation to the annual 'Big Talk' press-conference with Alexander Lukashenko. Awards Marina Koktysh won Gerd Bucerius Press Prize (2010); Marina Koktysh won the Love Belarus award in Journalism (2012); Winner of BAJ Free Word Competition (2012); Iosif Siaredzich received honorary diploma from BAJ for ‘Many years of outstanding work for freedom of speech and professional journalism’ (2019); References Sources External links Narodnaja Volya online (Russian and Belarusian languages) 1995 establishments in Belarus Bilingual newspapers Publications established in 1995 Russian-language newspapers published in Belarus Newspapers published in Vilnius Mass