Belarusian Information Ministry Targets Threads, Over 20 Accounts Declared “Extremist”

Reform.news · 7 May 2026, 20:09

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Belarus’s Information Ministry has updated the “Republican List of Extremist Materials”. This time, it includes 25 accounts on Threads.

Among them are:

• “Tolki Pra Movu”;
• “KATYA SNYTSINA”;
• “Andrei Kureichik”;
• “NAVIBAND”;
• “Usiaslau Pashkievich”;
• “Belarusians in Chicago”;
• “Maladaja Hramada | Maładaja Hramada”;
• “ChinChinChenel. BelGosInstaGramKanal”;
• “Free Belarus Women”;
• “ZBS | BSA | zbsunion.org”;
• “Ihar Yankou”;
• “Mikola Dziadok”;
• “Grustny Kolyenka”;
• “Hodna”;
• “ODNO OKNO”;
• “Filizhanka – Poland News”;
• “Dziianis Urbanovich”;
• “Volunteer Service of Viasna Human Rights Center”;
• “Alina Koushyk / Editor-in-chief of Belsat TV”;
• “Aliaksandr Ivulin”;
• “Andrei Stryzhak”;
• “Charter97.org”;
• “Danni Alien”;
• “Paviel Lacevich”;
• “Siarhei”.

An account on X, “Voice of Belarus”, has also been added to the updated list.

Belarusian authorities use extremism-related accusations to target Lukashenka’s opponents and dissent more broadly.