Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer watches the propaganda production for the election campaign of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Propaganda production for the election campaign of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. A test duck lies on a heating element in the print shop. On the table is a list with information on paper consumption.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". An employee passes through a dark corridor in the pressure combine building.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A fir tree stands in the repair department.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker walks past a machine tool with Soviet and Belarusian symbolism.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". An employee opens the door in a staircase.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer controls the printing of the brochures.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A sticker from the former print production is attached to a machine tool.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer at his workplace prints a magazine.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A technician repairs a printing press.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A print proofreader checks pages of the current issue of a magazine.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". The old printing forms pile up on the shelves.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker sorts the pages of a book.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Three women workers chat at their workplace.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker works on the headings. On the wall there are cutouts from earlier productions.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker produces a printing form.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Two workers cut and sort the print production.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A guard checks the lists of employees who have passed through the entrance door at the entrance to the publishing house.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". The old defective printing machines are located in a workroom.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Two technicians repair a printing press.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A technician repairs a printing press.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer observes his colleague sorting the print production.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Old printing plates pile up on a cupboard.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". The workers of the repair department take a break and play dominoes.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A cup is on the portrait of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko from his own production.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A warehouse worker sorts paper rolls.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer operates a power switch.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker leaves the paper warehouse. Since the air in the camp must always be very dry and cold and humid outside, the young man has to protect his respiratory tract.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". The sorted out print production lies in the backyard of the print shop in the snow.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker is combing her hair during a break.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Two workers sit on the packed old printing forms and compare technical tasks.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker sorts packed newspapers.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Two workers take a break.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A worker goes to her workplace.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". Two workers unpack the paper.
The work shoes lie on a locker in the changing room. The sticker on the locker is an anti-advertisement for the Belarusian Republican Youth Union with the slogan "Live happier, tell your friends off".
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A security guard leaves a hez room, which is located in the bunker under the printing plant. During the Cold War, the bunker was used to protect employees in the event of an attack.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A portrait of Yuri Gagarin hangs on the wall in the bunker under the print shop.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". The heaters take a break in the bunker under the print shop and play dominoes.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". The fish caught by heaters dry in the boiler room.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer is at his workplace.
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A printer checks the print quality of the government-issued newspaper "Belarus".
Minsk, Belarus, the publishing house "Pechatny Combinat". A passer-by passes a propaganda poster.
Minsk, Belarus. A poster with the Belarusian symbolism is hanging at a bus stop.
Minsk, Belarus. A book about President Lukashenko is on the shelf of a bookstore.

The publishing companies “Belarusian printing house” and “Printing Combine” in Minsk are the two biggest state printing medium manufacturers of the republic Belarus.The print media as those are of special meaning for the Belarusian government. Above all before the presidential election they, as a vehicle for propaganda, play a role, which is not to be underestimated. The authoritarian president Lukashenko appreciates his traditional voters. These are first of all pensioner and villagers, for who print media and not the television or the Internet are the most important sources of information.

Nevertheless, inside both publishing companies the workers are underpaid. Their production is expected to meet higher and higher requirements — in spite of ancient equipment. There can be no talk of working safety. In the Belarusian winter the workers have to freeze, because the workrooms are hardly heated, if at all. While the whole world celebrates the World Press Freedom Day on the 3rd of May, in Belarus the Press Day is cheered on the 5th of May.