The Interior Ministry has added another 17 people to the “List of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activities.” Among them are journalist Tsina Palynskaya and her daughter Marharyta Rabinovich, who were sentenced in March to two years in prison under charges of creating or participating in an “extremist formation.”
The “extremist list” now contains 6,620 names.
Palynskaya and her eldest daughter were detained in May 2025. It was previously reported that the criminal case against them could be linked to the designation of the “Belarusian Analytical Workshop” of Professor Andrei Vardamatski as an “extremist formation.” The organization conducted sociological surveys.
Tsina Palynskaya had long since stopped working in journalism. She was raising her daughters and working in archives, including Russian archives, carrying out private commissions for biographical essays, family history books and accounts of World War II participants.
Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism-related charges to target political opponents and dissent more broadly.
