“The Open Republic Association is deeply concerned about the news concerning reduction of the subsidy for the maintenance and growth of the Belorussian cultural identity, and, first of all, for the publication of Belorussian weekly in Poland “Niwa”. These subsidies are granted by the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. (…) Reduction of the subsidy, which – as we have been informed – may lead to the closure of “Niwa” weekly, would not only result in the impoverishment of Polish Republic’s cultural achievements, but would also be the breach of constitutional obligations of the Polish state” – we write in the letter to the Minister of the Interior and Administration Mariusz Błaszczak. On behalf of the Association the letter was signed by the President of the Management Board Marek Gumkowski