Zisser's Hoster.by removed from list of service providers for state bodies

The Opreative Analytical Center (OAC) at the Presidential Administration on 2 November amended the list of companies to supply internet services to state bodies and organizations. The text of the edict has been published on the National Legal Information Portal.

The OAC has removed from the list IBB IT Park and Nadezhnye Programy, the company widely known as Hoster.by.

Nadezhnye Programy was founded by Yury Zisser, a co-founder of TUT.BY, Belarus biggest internet portal. In August, law-enforcement agents raided the office of TUT.BY in Minsk in connection with the so called 'BELTA case.' Several days later, four TUT.BY editors were charged with unauthorized access to the paid service of state-run news agency BELTA.