[2][3] After its owning company was closed down by the Minsk Economic Court in June 2022, its successor Zerkalo.io (meaning Mirror) remains online as of September 2022[update].

[6] Tut.By published around 200 articles on domestic and foreign agenda daily, including original stories and video, analytics, special projects, and online broadcasts.

[7] The editorial standard claimed to prioritize socially important topics on Belarus and world agenda[8] in compliance with Journalism ethics.

[21] At first, it consisted of a free email service, news, weather forecast, currency rates, fuel prices, and a guest book.

[24] In January 2002, the E-commerce centre was launched to provide free and paid services in site development, design, promotion, hosting, and domain registration.

[39] In 2015, the catalog of Belarusian enterprises was separated into an independent editors office and received a new name Tam.by (wordplay ‘Tut’ lit.

It pioneered quality infographics on the ByNet, making this visualization tool an important part of the News section.

More than 70% of users visited the site's mobile version[50] According to Tut.by, in May 2019 a new record was set as news of all subdomains got 178 million views (web + apps, according to Yandex.Metrica).

The attack coincided in time with the arrest of blogger Sergey Tikhanovsky, who had recently announced his run for presidency.

[56][57][58][59] In August 2014, TUT.BY launched a non-commercial project BelarusFeed, targeted on the foreign audience who is interested in Belarus and wants to visit the country.

The agreement was initiated by the local social fund Fond Dobra, part of the UN Global Compact Network Belarus.

[66] In the late 2000s, the editors office decided to change course from news aggregator to independent journalism with its own texts, reports, and investigations.

Social issues and events with a public outcry were developed by Tut.by staff journalists and users could openly share their opinions via comments and on the site's forum.

Officially called DDoS attack, the blockage was actually a part of a massive strike against the country's independent media.

[68] In December 2014 the amendments to state Mass Media Act were issued, putting the responsibility for any comments on a website upon its owners.

[71] In 2017, State Ministry of Information issued a warning to editors office for an article on Belarusian citizens who fought at the Donbass war.

Though the government itself acknowledged that at least 140 Belarusians took an active part in the fights, the article was called by the Ministry to be “threatening to the State's interests”.

[72][73] In a 2017 interview, the founder of TUT.BY Yuri Zisser mentioned that there were serious issues with freedom of speech in Belarus and only gradual, civilized dialog with the government and much effort could turn the situation to the best.

In June 2018 the editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova and 14 other employees of Tut.by were arrested for alleged unauthorized access to information from a state news agency BelTA.

[83] Later Zolotova recalled how former Minister of information Lilia Ananich [be-tarask] invited directors of the leading independent media and advised them on the desired way to describe the economic situation in the country, asking not to “rock the boat”.

[6] On May 18, 2021, the authorities blocked Tut.by accusing it of publishing 'prohibited information', including the content about "unregistered" Belarus Solidarity Foundation (BYSOL).

[84] On the same day 15 journalists, including Marina Zolotova, Anastasiya Prudnikava, Dzianis Burkouski, Maksim Pushkin, Ala Burkouskaya, were arrested and sent to the infamous Okrestina detention centre.

[85][86][87] Yury Zisser's widow cultural scientist Yulia Chernyavskaya was also detained and soon found by journalists in the cardiovascular care unit of Minsk hospital.

[88][89] The tax fraud charges pressed on Tut.by and its employees are acknowledged as fabricated and pursue only the goal to further block independent media in the country.

[87] On March 17, 2022, three more staff members were released under the same conditions: Chief Editor of Political and Economical News Block, Deputy Technical Director Alexander Daineko and manager of Publisher Box Andrew Avdeev.

[15] By June 18, 2022, Tolkacheva and all other employees of Tut.by except Zolotova and Chekina were released from prison, however, they remained suspects, most of them have been put on the KGB terrorist list.