{"id":532258,"date":"2026-04-08T18:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=532258"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:52:24","slug":"youtube-channel-pershy-region-recognized-as-extremist-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/youtube-channel-pershy-region-recognized-as-extremist-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Channel Pershy Region Recognized as &#8220;Extremist&#8221; in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Information has updated the &#8220;Republican List of Extremist Materials.&#8221; Among other additions, it included the YouTube channel &#8220;Pershy Region&#8221; and the Dzen page &#8220;Pershy.&#8221; The relevant decision was made on 7 April 2026 by the Hantsavichy District Court of Brest Region.<\/p>\n<p>The updated list also includes the Dzen page &#8220;Ilya Varlamov&#8221; and the Telegram page &#8220;Afisha Belarusau Bostana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism-related charges to target political opponents and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information has updated the &#8220;Republican List of Extremist Materials.&#8221; Among other additions, it included the YouTube channel &#8220;Pershy Region&#8221; and the Dzen page &#8220;Pershy.&#8221; The relevant decision was made on 7 April 2026 by the Hantsavichy District Court of Brest Region. The updated list also includes the Dzen page &#8220;Ilya Varlamov&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"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\/04\/69d687cc479b6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"YouTube Channel Pershy Region Recognized as &#171;Extremist&#187; in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532258","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=532258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532258\/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=532258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}