{"id":531149,"date":"2026-04-03T22:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=531149"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:35:19","slug":"likely-reason-for-removal-of-state-propaganda-channels-was-complaint-over-pratasevich-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/likely-reason-for-removal-of-state-propaganda-channels-was-complaint-over-pratasevich-video","title":{"rendered":"Likely Reason for Removal of State Propaganda Channels Was Complaint Over Pratasevich Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>YouTube may have <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/youtube-removes-channels-of-belta-ont-and-stv\">removed the channels of Belarusian state media outlets<\/a> because of a complaint filed by Belarusian Investigative Center founder <b>Stanislau Ivashkevich<\/b> over a video by <b>Raman Pratasevich<\/b> that was released yesterday on CTV.<\/p>\n<p>In his programme &#8220;Bez Prykrytsya&#8221;, Protasevich disclosed Ivashkevich&#8217;s personal data, including his phone number and home address. The video also showed how to get to his apartment. Ivashkevich filed a complaint with YouTube over the video because it violated the platform&#8217;s rules, journalist <b>Ihar Kuley<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/igor.kuley\/posts\/pfbid0kmomtU1MsDUGArCF7kuCjGSYT755TzpEMnZbF8XLMgrJuL4hmBKoXLc58mPEoD3l\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the channels of CTV, ONT and BelTA were removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Ministry of Belarus said it <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/information-ministry-promises-response-to-removal-of-state-media-channels-from-youtube\">reserved the right to take retaliatory measures<\/a>. Belteleradiocompany warned that YouTube could be designated as extremist and fully blocked in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>It also became known today that the KGB had <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/novy-chas-and-bic-recognised-as-extremist-formations-in-belarus\">designated the Belarusian Investigative Center as an &#8220;extremist formation&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube may have removed the channels of Belarusian state media outlets because of a complaint filed by Belarusian Investigative Center founder Stanislau Ivashkevich over a video by Raman Pratasevich that was released yesterday on CTV. In his programme &#8220;Bez Prykrytsya&#8221;, Protasevich disclosed Ivashkevich&#8217;s personal data, including his phone number and home address. The video also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":531148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa8f53aefd0c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Likely Reason for Removal of State Propaganda Channels Was Complaint Over Pratasevich Video"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531149","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=531149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}