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“As of today, we have managed to restore Kamunikat almost to the state it was in before the attack,” Yaraslau Ivaniuk said during a meeting with readers at the Belarusian Solidarity Centre in Warsaw.
The founder of the Belarusian online library and publisher admitted that he deliberately avoided making a public announcement in advance so as not to give hackers an opportunity to spoil the good news.
“From today, the library is accessible, alive and functioning,” he said.
Only a small number of files were lost permanently, mostly illustrations accompanying archived news items.
As emphasized on the library’s website, following the attack the team strengthened security measures as much as possible. They “reviewed backup procedures, reinforced website protection and redesigned some processes so that the project would be more resilient to similar attacks in the future.”
The project also plans to launch a new website based on a modern platform.
“The most important task is to integrate the archives we have with it. But we will do it,” the creators said.
On May 7, 2026, Kamunikat.org’s server was subjected to a major attack that resulted in the deletion of all files collected over 25 years. The library has now been restored. The team and technical specialists worked on the recovery for more than a month.
At the end of 2025, the Belarusian authorities designated the website’s content as “extremist materials.” On March 3, 2026, the Belarusian KGB included Kamunikat in a non-existent “coalition of publishing houses” and declared it an “extremist formation.” The May 7 attack on the resource can be viewed as part of broader political pressure on independent Belarusian cultural infrastructure.
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