{"id":521213,"date":"2026-02-26T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521213"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:38:38","slug":"viktor-pelevin-s-novel-banned-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/viktor-pelevin-s-novel-banned-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Pelevin\u2019s Novel Banned in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Information has updated the \u201cList of Printed Publications Containing Information Messages and (or) Materials Whose Distribution Is Capable of Harming the National Interests of the Republic of Belarus.\u201d Another 16 publications have been added to the register.<\/p>\n<p>Among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cSmile \u2013 Pilgrim of the Soul: Poems, Translations\u201d by <b>Vladimir Khoroshko<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBDSM. Boundless Kindness, Compassion and Mercy\u201d by <b>Aleksandr Chashchin<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYour Mari\u201d by <b>Marianna Kramm<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLessons in Sin\u201d by <b>Pam Godwin<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Cannibal\u2019s Diary. The Story of the Japanese Cannibal Who Gained Fame Instead of a Prison Term\u201d by <b>Issei Sagawa<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cProzac Nation\u201d by <b>Elizabeth Wurtzel<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSeven Petals\u201d by <b>Sergei Kuznetsov<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAmnesia of the Soul\u201d by <b>Tatyana Kogan<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Lamp of Methuselah, or The Final Battle of the Chekists with the Masons\u201d by <b>Viktor Pelevin<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPlease Kill Me! The Uncensored Oral History of Punk\u201d by <b>Legs McNeil<\/b> and <b>Gillian McCain<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Song of Achilles\u201d by <b>Madeline Miller<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Forest of the Dead\u201d by <b>Jean-Christophe Grang\u00e9<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRelease\u201d by <b>Patrick Ness<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Absolutist\u201d by <b>John Boyne<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cExquisite Corpse\u201d by <b>Poppy Brite<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFistula\u201d by <b>Artem Serebryakov<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information has updated the \u201cList of Printed Publications Containing Information Messages and (or) Materials Whose Distribution Is Capable of Harming the National Interests of the Republic of Belarus.\u201d Another 16 publications have been added to the register. Among them: \u201cSmile \u2013 Pilgrim of the Soul: Poems, Translations\u201d by Vladimir Khoroshko; \u201cBDSM. Boundless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a158162a63b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Viktor Pelevin\u2019s Novel Banned in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521213","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=521213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}