Talk:Brest Region

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders 2004 report on Belarus (from www.c97.org/ on 6 May 2004)includes:

"President Lukashenko thinks the media should help build a 'state ideology'. The regime prevented a dozen independent media from appearing in 2003 using imaginative administrative harassment. A hundred or so journalists staged a 'A Day of Closed Newspapers' on 19 September 2003 to stress their rights, which had been particularly abused during the year. The authorities suspended and punished a dozen newspapers over several months, mostly because they had printed articles from the banned independent newspaper Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta (BDG). Every administrative excuse was used to block publication of the independent press and several printers were punished and some sacked for working with the papers.

The regime also targeted human rights groups and shut down several organisations that gave valuable help to the media. It also refused to cooperate with international organisations which firmly criticised the worsening conditions and did not allow the press freedom representative of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Freimut Duve, into the country in September.

A new press law was drafted in secret and aimed to further reduce press freedom. Registration fees for newspapers and radio and TV stations rose sharply in June. The government presented a new law in mid-December requiring government employees to ask permission before giving any information to the media.

(See http://charter97.org/eng/news/2004/05/06/rwb/)

The region was formed in 1939 after reunification of Western Belarus and the Byelorussian SSR

It's a POV statement. My POV is - the region was occupied by the SU 1939-1941, Germany 1941-1944 and annexed to the Byelorussian SSR. Tens of rhousands of Poles were expelled, deported to Siberia, killed.Xx236 07:57, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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Requested move 11 December 2024

• Brest Region → Brest region
• Gomel Region → Gomel region
• Grodno Region → Grodno region
• Minsk Region → Minsk region
• Mogilev Region → Mogilev region
• Vitebsk Region → Vitebsk region

– Region is not part of the proper name of regions of Belarus, and is typically lowercase in sources. Dicklyon (talk) 02:24, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support Per WP:NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS. Region is a translation of oblast (or voblasts) from the native language, which is not capitalised in that language (ie it is not inherently a proper noun|name). All of these terms are not consistently capped in sources (google scholar and google books) in English language sources either. Cinderella157 (talk) 10:19, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
• Comment Note that the previous RM's consensus specifically called for the capitalized "Region". 162 etc. (talk) 17:19, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

  I wasn't aware of that 2010 discussion based on "OTHERSTUFF". We've fixed some of that other stuff since then. Dicklyon (talk) 06:37, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

  It's interesting that the original proposal there was for lowercase region, per the official Belarus site which still has them all with lowercase region. Dicklyon (talk) 06:41, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support per MOS:CAPS. Theparties (talk)
• Comment. I took a look at Ngrams and lowercase "region" has spiked in the last few years. Any reason why this might be the case? Mellk (talk) 20:21, 12 December 2024 (UTC)