On April 26, 2007, Alexander Lukashenko said that the channel is bad. The government of Belarus has been making troubles for "Belsat" all the time and does not not give the channel an approval. "Belsat's" journalists have gotten many punishments for work. In March 2008, for example, many "Belsat" journalists were arrested and technical things were taken away. To 2017, they have spent a number of 125 days in detention and been fined $94,296 US, simply for doing their work.