{"id":521333,"date":"2026-02-27T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521333"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:48:59","slug":"figures-in-spirit-of-rus-case-added-to-belarus-extremists-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/figures-in-spirit-of-rus-case-added-to-belarus-extremists-list","title":{"rendered":"Figures in \u201cSpirit of Rus\u201d Case Added to Belarus Extremists List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Interior Ministry has added another 33 people to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Nationals or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the Viasna Human Rights Centre, those added to the list include 19-year-olds <b>Viachaslau Bandarchuk<\/b>, <b>Uladzislau Varonin<\/b>\u00a0and <b>Artsiom Aliferovich<\/b>. The KGB had claimed that they were involved in the \u201cextremist formation\u201d Spirit of Rus.<\/p>\n<p>Also added were <b>Artur Katovich<\/b>, 16-year-old <b>Yury Kandratsenka<\/b>, and <b>Ruslan Nazarchuk<\/b>, whose age was not specified.<\/p>\n<p>The list now contains 6,353 names.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to suppress political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has added another 33 people to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Nationals or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity\u201d. As noted by the Viasna Human Rights Centre, those added to the list include 19-year-olds Viachaslau Bandarchuk, Uladzislau Varonin\u00a0and Artsiom Aliferovich. The KGB had claimed that they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":521332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a1769fc2674.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Figures in \u201cSpirit of Rus\u201d Case Added to Belarus Extremists List"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521333","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=521333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}