“He thinks the number-one duty of the Minister of Finance is making saving, and his and his team’s negative attitude toward the press was added to this, too, and, under the guise of saving, he decided to ban reading newspapers.
And the first thing he did was to send a formal letter to the departments, with a request to reduce press subscription. According to our departmental sources, this instruction first refers to independent and oppositional press,” Hraparak writes.
