Euronews Website Declared ‘Extremist’ in Belarus

Belarus’ Information Ministry has updated its Republican List of Extremist Materials. Among the newly designated resources is the Euronews website. The decision was issued on Aug. 4 by the Horki District Court of the Mahiliou Region.

The updated list also includes:

• Instagram pages: “VOLNY CHOR | VOLNY CHOR”, “Honest Newspaper. Samizdat”, “svetlana_shatilina”, “neiserika”, “look.at.grodno” (as well as its logo), and “Rezka”;
• the “Rezka” page on Threads;
• TikTok accounts: “Look at Grodno” (as well as its logo);
• Telegram channels and groups: “Poznavatelno Odnako”, “SP”, “Telegraf SP”, “sp_telegraf”, “Ve1”, “Nasch DRUG”, “MY NE KHOLOPY non-extremist”, as well as the logo of the “Stop Propaganda” channel;
• Telegram bots: “Belarusians Abroad – Bot”, “Return What Was Stolen!”, “Belarusians Abroad Chat Bot”, “FreeZhlobinContactBot”, “BelaMedia Bot”, “Belarus_for_Change. Bot for Receiving Messages”, “NAU”, as well as the logo of the “Stop Propaganda Bot”;
• the Telegram account: “Nikolai Maslovsky”;
• YouTube channels: “Hot News”, “1467”;
• X (Twitter) pages: “Hot News”;
• the VKontakte group: “Bad News”;
• the website euvsdisinfo.eu.

It should be recalled that in Belarus, extremism-related accusations are used to prosecute opponents of Aliaksandr Lukashenka and suppress dissent more broadly.