[4] The station was closed on formally technical reasons and was transferred over to the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, who still uses the radio today.

Independent groups claimed that this was another method by the government of Alexander Lukashenko to suppress the freedom of the press inside Belarus.

Its analytical programmes criticized the authorities, the news blocks published information about the demonstrations, names of the detained.

However, the media strived to be objective, it published governmental releases and invited the state officials to comment the actual issues.

[8][9] When the news about closure came out, the listeners brought flowers to the Radio’s office and cars honked around all Minsk as a sign of support.