Representatives of the opposition frequently feature in the news-programmes. The print media T he state owns all the printing plants in Minsk. The state owns the national distribution service. All the broadsheet national papers are printed at one plant, the Belarussian Printing House, which is subordinate to the presidential administration. A ll eight national morning dailies are owned by government structures.
T here is no privately-owned daily newspaper and no daily in editorial opposition to the government.
The most visible independent publications which are critical of the government, Svaboda and Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta , come out one or twice per week. Opposition papers have a particular problem in Belarus. Since the state printing house has refused to print the papers, some moved to Lithuania and are imported. They are distributed by people on the streets of large cities, to circumvent the state-distribution system. Consequently, nominally independent newspapers are not available outside the main cities.