{"id":501960,"date":"2025-12-12T12:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=501960"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:43:53","slug":"project-kastus-designated-as-an-extremist-formation-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/project-kastus-designated-as-an-extremist-formation-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Project \u201cKastus\u201d Designated as an \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The pages of the \u201cKastus\u201d project have been designated an \u201cextremist formation\u201d in Belarus. The decision is based on a ruling by the Ministry of Internal Affairs dated 10 December 2025 No. 29EK \u201cOn Recognizing a Group of Citizens as an Extremist Formation and Prohibiting Its Activities,\u201d which was published today.<\/p>\n<p>The entry states that the initiative is connected to <b>Kanstantsin Reznichak<\/b>, born 15 May 1978, and <strong>Alyaksandr<\/strong><b>\u00a0Herasimenka<\/b>, born 30 January 1977.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cA group of citizens acting jointly and in coordination since 2021, united under the common name \u2018Kastus,\u2019 carries out extremist activities,\u201d<\/i> the \u201creference information\u201d says.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities routinely use extremism-related charges to target opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-501903 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic_10.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic_10-300x42.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic_10-768x106.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic_10-870x120.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pages of the \u201cKastus\u201d project have been designated an \u201cextremist formation\u201d in Belarus. The decision is based on a ruling by the Ministry of Internal Affairs dated 10 December 2025 No. 29EK \u201cOn Recognizing a Group of Citizens as an Extremist Formation and Prohibiting Its Activities,\u201d which was published today. The entry states that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":501959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693bf1ec448b4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Project \u201cKastus\u201d Designated as an \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501960","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}