Здание Комитета госбезопасности. Фото: Reform.by
The Interior Ministry has updated its list of “extremist formations”. The European Humanities University has been added to it as an “extremist organisation”. The decision to designate EHU as an “extremist organisation” was taken by the Supreme Court a week ago.
The list also includes decisions by the KGB dated April 16. Under these decisions, electoral lists in the elections to the Coordination Council have been designated as “extremist formations”.
The following have been included in the list:
For each of the “formations”, lists of participants corresponding to the published electoral lists are provided, as well as various online resources associated with them, where available. It should be recalled that the “Try Slany” platform, which hosts information about the Coordination Council elections, was recently designated as an “extremist formation”.
It should also be noted that the KGB had previously designated electoral lists in the Coordination Council elections as “extremist formations” in 2024. Not all participants in the 2026 elections have yet been included in the list; it is possible that decisions have not yet been taken, or that the committee considers it sufficient that lists under the same names were designated as “extremist formations” two years ago. The decisions of April 16 mainly concerned new participants in the elections or those whose names have changed compared with the previous campaign.
It should be recalled that the Belarusian authorities have consistently used extremism-related charges to persecute opponents and dissent more broadly.