{"id":517154,"date":"2026-02-13T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=517154"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:22:10","slug":"former-dynama-hockey-press-attache-convicted-of-facilitating-extremism-nasha-niva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-dynama-hockey-press-attache-convicted-of-facilitating-extremism-nasha-niva","title":{"rendered":"Former Dynama Hockey Press Attach\u00e9 Convicted Of \u201cFacilitating Extremism\u201d \u2014 Nasha Niva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former press attach\u00e9 of the Dynama hockey club and son of the former editor-in-chief of Pressball, <b>Mikita Berazhkou<\/b>, has been convicted under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code for \u201cfacilitating extremist activity\u201d. The sports producer was sentenced to so-called \u201chome chemistry\u201d, Nasha Niva reports.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was handed down by the Minsk City Court. The authors note that hundreds of people detained in the so-called Hajun case have been tried under this article, but it remains unclear whether Mikita faced the same accusation.<\/p>\n<p>Mikita Berazhkou is the son of <b>Uladzimir Berazhkou<\/b>, the editor-in-chief of Pressball, who headed the newspaper from 1995 to 2014 and in 2015 was placed in a detention center on corruption charges. At the time, he was the general director of Minsk\u2019s Dynama hockey club. After his release, Berazhkou Sr. worked at the Belarusian Football Federation, the SB. Belarus Today newspaper, and the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Mikita worked as a press attach\u00e9 at Minsk\u2019s Dynama hockey club and moved to Russia shortly after his father\u2019s arrest. There, he spent seven years working as a producer at the Match TV sports channel. At one point, he was a laureate of the Atlant International Sports Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to suppress political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former press attach\u00e9 of the Dynama hockey club and son of the former editor-in-chief of Pressball, Mikita Berazhkou, has been convicted under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code for \u201cfacilitating extremist activity\u201d. The sports producer was sentenced to so-called \u201chome chemistry\u201d, Nasha Niva reports. The verdict was handed down by the Minsk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":517153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698f0968dc5ae.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Former Dynama Hockey Press Attach\u00e9 Convicted Of \u201cFacilitating Extremism\u201d \u2014 Nasha Niva"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517154","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=517154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}