{"id":500404,"date":"2025-12-05T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=500404"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:23:06","slug":"kgb-designates-polish-event-agencies-and-an-art-space-as-extremist-formations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kgb-designates-polish-event-agencies-and-an-art-space-as-extremist-formations","title":{"rendered":"KGB Designates Polish Event Agencies and an Art Space as \u201cExtremist Formations\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The KGB has designated two Polish event agencies and an art space as \u201cextremist formations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The companies Terra Group Event and SSL Production have been labelled \u201cextremist.\u201d The KGB claims that <b>Vitaly Kryvko<\/b> and <b>Andrei Yarashevich<\/b> are connected to them. <strong>Anatol Kotau<\/strong>, who disappeared after flying to Turkey at the end of August, worked at Terra Group Event.<\/p>\n<p>The art space \u201cSklad Butyelyek\u201d was also added to the list of \u201cextremist formations.\u201d The KGB stated that <b>Valiantsin Bakhtinau<\/b>, <b>Siarhei Salash<\/b>, <b>Dzmitry Babitski<\/b>, <b>Aliaksandra Vishneuskaya<\/b>, <b>Anastasiya Henadzieuna Tsiareshka<\/b>, <b>Valeriya Belskaya<\/b>, <b>Yury Dushyn<\/b>, <strong>Vo<\/strong><b>lga Stralkouskaya<\/b>, <b>Kiryl Skabeyka<\/b>, <b>Dzmitry Kavalyonak<\/b> and <b>Siarhei Statkevich<\/b> are associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the human-rights centre Viasna, the reference is to an art space in Barysau. In the autumn, 10\u201315 people were detained in Barysau on administrative charges. Human-rights defenders believe that some of them have likely become suspects in criminal cases under the article on participation in an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian security forces have been using extremism charges as a tool to target political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-500332\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-05-at-16.30.23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-05-at-16.30.23.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-05-at-16.30.23-300x104.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-05-at-16.30.23-1200x415.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-05-at-16.30.23-768x266.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-05-at-16.30.23-870x301.jpeg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KGB has designated two Polish event agencies and an art space as \u201cextremist formations.\u201d The companies Terra Group Event and SSL Production have been labelled \u201cextremist.\u201d The KGB claims that Vitaly Kryvko and Andrei Yarashevich are connected to them. Anatol Kotau, who disappeared after flying to Turkey at the end of August, worked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6933e7f331760.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"KGB Designates Polish Event Agencies and an Art Space as \u201cExtremist Formations\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}