[15] On March 17, 1995, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko fired Iosif Siaredzich from his post of the editor-in-chief at Narodnaja Gazeta.

[21] On June 18, 2002, a Belarus district court froze Narodnaya Volya bank account because of defamation charges brought by two judges from Zhodzina.

The Court also ordered Narodnaya Volya journalist Maryna Koktysh and former television host Eleanora Yazerskaya to pay Br 3,000,000 each to Rybakou.

[26] In 2004 International Press Freedom Award laureate Svetlana Kalinkina accepted an editorial position at Narodnaja Volya.

[27] In 2004 Iosif Siaredzich wrote letters to Minsk court in protection of Leonid Svetik, a high school teacher and political activist, who was prosecuted by authorities for criticizing the government.

[30] On September 20, 2005, without any notification, bailiffs entered the editors office and distrained all its property, Narodnaya Volya's bank account was arrested.

[35] OSCE representative said that the closure made the country lose two-thirds of its independent press, BAJ called it lawless.

[41] On 13 March 2006, a week before the presidential election that would usher in Lukashenko's third term, Narodnaja Volya, BDG, and Tovarishch had their print runs abruptly cancelled by their Smolensk supplier.

Kalinkina told The New York Times that she believed Belarusian government pressure to be responsible, saying, "When, a week before the election, someone refuses to print three papers, it is clear there are political reasons.

[50][51] In April 2010, computers were seized from Kalinkina and Koktysh, as well as Charter 97 editor Natalya Radina and Novaya Gazeta journalist Irina Khalip as part of an investigation into a slander case filed by Ivan Korzh.

The veterans, supported by unknown sportive-looking young men, protested against the publication of chapters from Ilya Kopil's book on the Second World War, accusing it for propaganda of fascism and falsification of history.

The attention from authorities was allegedly linked to the recent investigation of high ranking KGB officials, published by Narodnaja Volya.

[72][73][74] 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.

[75] At a press conference on December 23, 2011, Koktysh asked Lukashenko if he would sleep better if the accused of treason oppositionist Andrei Sannikov[76][77] and Mikola Statkevich[78] pleaded for absolution.

[82] 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.

[83] 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.

[84][85] 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.

[87][88] 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.