{"id":533490,"date":"2026-04-13T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533490"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:59:25","slug":"educational-initiative-heta-baza-declared-an-extremist-formation-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/educational-initiative-heta-baza-declared-an-extremist-formation-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Educational Initiative Heta Baza Declared an \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019 KGB has designated the educational initiative Heta Baza as an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s website and accounts on Telegram, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube have been declared \u201cextremist.\u201d <strong><b>Uladzimir Chumakou<\/b><\/strong> and <strong><b>Yauhen Baziuk<\/b><\/strong> were named as being affiliated with the \u201cformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heta Baza is a youth educational initiative.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;Our mission is to educate Belarusian youth both inside Belarus and abroad. We seek to promote a culture of democracy and peace, activism and civic engagement, as well as solidarity and mutual assistance through educational activities&#8221;<\/i><\/em>, Heta Baza says.<\/p>\n<p>The neo-Nazi Telegram channel \u201cNSOOBE Ostenland\u201d was also designated an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accusations of extremism in Belarus are used to fight opponents of the authorities and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019 KGB has designated the educational initiative Heta Baza as an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d The project\u2019s website and accounts on Telegram, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube have been declared \u201cextremist.\u201d Uladzimir Chumakou and Yauhen Baziuk were named as being affiliated with the \u201cformation.\u201d Heta Baza is a youth educational initiative. &#8220;Our mission is to educate Belarusian youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":533489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69dd20f357ae6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Educational Initiative Heta Baza Declared an \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533490","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=533490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}