Minsk City Executive Committee

Name	Information Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Agency "Minsk-News"
Short name	UE "Agency "Minsk-News"
State Registration Number	101542412
Founder	Minsk City Executive Committee
Date of registration	18.02.1999
Location Pervomaisky	District

The Agency "Minsk-News" is an information holding, including the newspapers "Minski Kurier" and "Vecherni Minsk", the magazine "Kacheli", the radio program "Radio-Minsk", and an information news bulletin.

The newspaper "Minski Kurier" (www.mk.by) is a socio-political edition. It is published two times a week (Wednesday, Friday), A3 format.
As for the volume of information published about Minsk, the newspaper dominates the market for print media in Belarus. The whole range of life in the capital is in the view of reporters: city news, news about culture, sports, film-and playbill. At readers' requests there have been permanent thematic pages: "Megapolis", "City Services", "Health", "Education in the Capital", "Pride of the Capital-Dynasty", "A Hundred Sides of the Capital", "People's SMS", and others.
Founded in February 1908, the publication was resumed in April 2001. The newspaper is of interest to citizens of all ages. Acquaintance with at least one issue of the newspaper is enough to imagine how much information of great interest is published during a week, month, year... .
As a result of the V National Printed Press Competition "Minski Kurier won in the category "Best City Newspaper". The Internet version of the "Minsk Courier" is also very popular.

The newspaper "Vecherni Minsk" (www.vminsk.by) is a socio-political edition. It is published three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday), A3 format.

The newspaper "Vecherni Minsk" has been published since November 1967. In accordance with the decision of the Minsk City Executive Committee of 6 June, 2008 the edition was reorganized into a state enterprise. Since January 1, 2011 the newspaper has been part of the Agency "Minsk-news".
According to independent sociological services, the majority of the readers, men and women, are 27 - 48-year-old workers, employees, students, businessmen, workers in management, public servants.
Subjects of headings are varied: "Everyday occurrences", "City squares", "Lessons of economy", "You're doing well", "In person", "Maximalist", "Live happily", "Peace to your home", "Four wheels", "Ecology and our life", "City billboard".

The Magazine "Kacheli" is a Republican magazine for children and adolescents. It has been published since 1998. Since 2005 the founder of the magazine has been Committee on Education of Minsk City Executive Committee.
In 2007 the magazine won a National competition in the print media award for "Best magazine for children and adolescents" and received the "Golden Letter".
"Kacheli" is a magazine for kids who are full of enthusiasm, curiosity and creativity. (For readers aged from 9 to 14).

"Radio-Minsk" program (www.radiominsk.by) broadcasts around the clock. The radio sounded first on March 1, 2004, and now broadcasts on FM-frequency. The music series is formed on the parity of Belarusian, Russian and Western music. The most popular music and the most requested information are the main priorities of "Radio-Minsk". The radio broadcasts at the frequency of 92,4 FM in Minsk and Minsk region, 98,1 FM - in Mogilev and Mogilev region, 106,4 FM - in Vitebsk and Vitebsk region, 105,6 FM - in Gomel and Gomel region, 100,4 FM - Brest. Thus, the potential broadcasting area covers the whole of Belarus. The authors' programs include news of politics, business, science, sports, as well as pages of history, pop music. Family oriented people are our audience. We support and share the priorities of our listeners: family values, successful career are our philosophy. Our listeners are active and purposeful people aged from 25 to 45.

The newscast of the Agency "Minsk-News" (www.minsknews.by) has been released since 2002. In real time information is received by 180 publications, FM-stations, television companies both in Belarus and in the CIS and foreign countries. Preparing the regular release "Minsk-News" correspondents receive information only from first-hand, and in many cases it is the Agency reports that form the basis on which Belarusian and foreign media materials are based.