{"id":524007,"date":"2026-03-09T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524007"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:23:16","slug":"kgb-declares-coalition-of-publishing-houses-an-extremist-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kgb-declares-coalition-of-publishing-houses-an-extremist-formation","title":{"rendered":"KGB Declares Coalition Of Publishing Houses An \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A new entry has appeared in the list of \u201cextremist formations\u201d maintained by the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cextremist formation\u201d designation has been applied to the <em>\u201cCoalition of Publishing Houses \u2018Kamunikat.org Foundation\u2019, \u2018Lohvinau Publishing House\u2019, \u2018Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing\u2019.\u201d<\/em> The decision was made by the KGB on 3 March.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with the formation, the list mentions <b>Yaraslau Ivaniuk<\/b>, <b>Dzmitry Kolas<\/b>, <b>Ihar Lohvinau<\/b>, <b>Vatslau Bahdanovich<\/b>, <b>Andrei Yanushkevich<\/b>, and <b>Alyaksandr Eudakha<\/b>. The websites and social media accounts of the publishing houses have also been added to the list.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that in February mass detentions of book publishers and distributors took place in Minsk. Later, the publishing house Gutenberg Publisher was also declared an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accusations of extremism are used by the Belarusian authorities to fight opponents as well as to persecute dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new entry has appeared in the list of \u201cextremist formations\u201d maintained by the Interior Ministry. The \u201cextremist formation\u201d designation has been applied to the \u201cCoalition of Publishing Houses \u2018Kamunikat.org Foundation\u2019, \u2018Lohvinau Publishing House\u2019, \u2018Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing\u2019.\u201d The decision was made by the KGB on 3 March. In connection with the formation, the list mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ae91899ca10.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"KGB Declares Coalition Of Publishing Houses An \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524007","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=524007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}