{"id":518387,"date":"2026-02-17T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=518387"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:03:11","slug":"sons-of-businessman-chyzh-held-lithuanian-citizenship-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sons-of-businessman-chyzh-held-lithuanian-citizenship-bureau","title":{"rendered":"Sons of Businessman Chyzh Held Lithuanian Citizenship \u2014 Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The sons of prominent Belarusian businessman <b>Yury Chyzh<\/b> held Lithuanian citizenship. <b>Siarhei Chyzh<\/b> and <b>Uladzimir Chyzh<\/b> obtained Lithuanian citizenship in the spring of 2013, at a time when their father was under European Union sanctions. This was reported by the investigative outlets Bureau and Siena.<\/p>\n<p>The grounds for obtaining citizenship were family ties to Lithuania. The Chyzh brothers\u2019 grandmother had been a Lithuanian citizen before the Soviet occupation. Their mother, <b>Sviatlana Chyzh<\/b>, was born in Lithuania during the occupation period.<\/p>\n<p>At present, Siarhei and Uladzimir Chyzh do not hold Lithuanian passports. They renounced Lithuanian citizenship, according to a decision by Lithuania\u2019s acting interior minister published in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>The full investigation is available <a href=\"https:\/\/buromedia.io\/index.php\/ru\/news\/u-synovey-biznesmena-yuriya-chizha-bylo-litovskoe-grazhdanstvo\">in the original publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sons of prominent Belarusian businessman Yury Chyzh held Lithuanian citizenship. Siarhei Chyzh and Uladzimir Chyzh obtained Lithuanian citizenship in the spring of 2013, at a time when their father was under European Union sanctions. This was reported by the investigative outlets Bureau and Siena. The grounds for obtaining citizenship were family ties to Lithuania. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69945905db415.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Sons of Businessman Chyzh Held Lithuanian Citizenship \u2014 Bureau"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518387","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=518387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}