[9][10] The agency is characterized by a well-balanced, objective and impartial coverage of current events both on Eastern and Western political spheres.
In her recollections, BelaPAN’s first office was located at Bryleŭski blind alley in a small wooden building with an outhouse.
[14] Apart from Levašava and Lipaj, the staff included three more employees, they printed the news and on foot brought them to editors offices of Minsk newspapers.
In the early 2000s, it launched Отдыхай (‘Rest’ in Russian) newspaper, but soon the project had to be shut down due to low profitability.
[24] Through the years, BelaPAN’s journalists were numerous times arrested,[25][26][27] questioned in the state General Prosecutor’s Office,[28] obstructed in the discharge of professional duties.
[31][32] On October 3, 2015, BelaPAN’s server experienced a significant DDoS attack after publishing materials on the ‘Pray for Belarus’ action.
[34][35] At that time several important political events took place: private entrepreneurs meeting at the Kastryčnickaja Square, in Brussels the EU Council meeting discussed the possibility of lifting the sanctions on Belarusian officials[36] Though the site's blockage could be done only by order of the government, officially it was named hackers' attack.
[37] Several journalists and the editor-in-chief of BelaPAN were arrested for alleged stealing of news from a paid subscription of a government-owned BelTA agency.
[40] Human rights activists, BAJ and OSCE members unanimously called the BelTA case an intimidation to all the independent media, and the reaction of local authorities to be highly disproportionate.