former hardened criminals and kept the local villagers in fear. Svetlana Kalinkina met with the protesters and offered them to publish their opinions in the next issue of Narodnaya Volya. Government-owned TV channels covered the picket as ‘people outrage against detractors from the opposition'. The second picket took place on 14 April, initiated by Minsk State Youth Union. Kalinkina came to the protesters again and explained the value of uncensored war memoirs and its historical significance. On February 17, 2011, deputy editor Marina Koktysh was questioned by the police, the editors office was searched. On February 26, Kalinkina’s apartment was searched by the police, her computer was seized. The attention from authorities was allegedly linked to the recent investigation of high ranking KGB officials, published by Narodnaja Volya. Kalinkina and Natalya Radina had their calls and e-mails tapped by law enforcement, they received numerous kill threats. On 29 April 2011, the Information Ministry again attempted to shut down Narodnaja Volya and another independent newspaper Nasha Niva, filing a motion with the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus for the newspaper's closure. On May 13, 2011, the preliminary court hearing took place of the Narodnaja Volya case. The official reason to close the newspaper was the distribution of unsound information. On May 12 the similar hearings were held of the case against Nasha Niva. The actual reasons were the reports on anti-government demonstrations after the presidential elections. Due to high international resonance, the Ministry dropped the case but immediately started the new ones on administrative offences. These cases ended with fines of . At a press conference in June 2011, Lukashenko said that “they [Narodnaya Volya and Nasha Niva] had it coming”. In 2008 Marina Koktysh was refused journalist accreditation to the House of Representatives of the Belarusian parliament. She unsuccessfully sued the government several times. Only in 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee asserted Koktysh’s rights. Through the years, she was forcibly removed from a train from Vilnius by Belarusian border control, had her car and computers arrested, phone calls surveilled, called to question in KGB and the General Prosecutors Office. In October 2011 Koktysh suffered from a phone attack - the constant calls from unknown numbers dropped as soon as she answered, so the journalist couldn’t work or contact her friends or family. At a press conference on December 23, 2011, Koktysh asked Lukashenko if he would sleep better if