{"id":509055,"date":"2026-01-12T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=509055"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:46:21","slug":"vaitsiakhouski-who-returned-to-belarus-appears-in-bt-propaganda-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vaitsiakhouski-who-returned-to-belarus-appears-in-bt-propaganda-film","title":{"rendered":"Vaitsiakhouski, Who Returned to Belarus, Appears in BT Propaganda Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Anatol Vaitsiakhouski<\/b>, who disappeared in Bia\u0142ystok about a month ago, has appeared in the propaganda film \u201cReturn Home\u201d by the Belarus 1 TV channel. A trailer for the \u201cinvestigative film\u201d was released today.<\/p>\n<p>Vaitsiakhouski founded one of the first private newspapers in Baranavichy \u2014 \u201cShag\u201d \u2014 in the 1990s and later went into business in the 2000s. In April 2023, Vaitsiakhouski was detained over comments he had made. He was evacuated to Poland with the help of BYSOL.<\/p>\n<p>In March this year, Vaitsiakhouski and another activist, <strong>Uladzimir<\/strong> <b>Usser<\/b>, with whom he lived in a shared apartment in Bia\u0142ystok, appeared in a BT propaganda film \u201cForeign Sky\u201d, in which Belarusians described the problems of life in exile. It later emerged that both men had been filmed under false pretences.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2025, Usser was detained by Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency (ABW). He was charged with acting in the interests of a foreign intelligence service against Poland. Due to his health condition, he was not placed in custody. He was first hospitalised and later moved to a shelter in Bia\u0142ystok. He died in early December.<\/p>\n<p>After Usser\u2019s death, Vaitsiakhouski stopped showing up for his job as a taxi driver, deleted his Telegram profile and switched off his phone \u2014 and then unexpectedly surfaced in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anatol Vaitsiakhouski, who disappeared in Bia\u0142ystok about a month ago, has appeared in the propaganda film \u201cReturn Home\u201d by the Belarus 1 TV channel. A trailer for the \u201cinvestigative film\u201d was released today. Vaitsiakhouski founded one of the first private newspapers in Baranavichy \u2014 \u201cShag\u201d \u2014 in the 1990s and later went into business in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":509054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6964fb380d486.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vaitsiakhouski, Who Returned to Belarus, Appears in BT Propaganda Film"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509055","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\/509055","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=509055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}