{"id":511371,"date":"2026-01-21T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=511371"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:48:37","slug":"website-of-the-northern-lights-film-festival-labeled-extremist-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/website-of-the-northern-lights-film-festival-labeled-extremist-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Website of the Northern Lights Film Festival Labeled \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Information of Belarus has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials.\u201d Among other entries, the list now includes the website of the Northern Lights Film Festival and the Facebook account of its founder, <b>Volha Chaikouskaya<\/b>. The decision was made by the October District Court of Vitsiebsk on January 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the website of the \u201cfreeviasna\u201d project;<\/li>\n<li>the website of the campaign \u201cNo to the Death Penalty in Belarus\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the TikTok account of Viasna;<\/li>\n<li>Threads accounts \u201cKastu\u015b Supra\u0107\u201d, \u201cgirikalex\u201d, \u201cBRC \/ Belarusian Investigative Center\u201d, \u201cAndru\u015b Bielavieshkin\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>TikTok pages \u201cOlga Karach\u201d, \u201cAndru\u015b Bielavieshkin\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>Odnoklassniki pages \u201cAleksandr Lastouski\u201d, \u201cAleksandr Zhuravliou\u201d, \u201cYahor Minakou\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the YouTube channel \u201cBELSAT SHORTS\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Instagram page \u201cvslep\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>VKontakte pages \u201cWe Are for a New Life!\u201d, \u201cShatsilkavichy Political Blahblah Laboratory\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to crack down on political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information of Belarus has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials.\u201d Among other entries, the list now includes the website of the Northern Lights Film Festival and the Facebook account of its founder, Volha Chaikouskaya. The decision was made by the October District Court of Vitsiebsk on January 19, 2026. The list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6971117e04379.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Website of the Northern Lights Film Festival Labeled \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511371","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=511371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}