{"id":533723,"date":"2026-04-14T19:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533723"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:28:16","slug":"budrys-expresses-support-for-ehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/budrys-expresses-support-for-ehu","title":{"rendered":"Budrys Expresses Support for EHU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys<\/b><\/strong> called the Belarusian authorities’ decision to declare EHU an “extremist organisation” outrageous and expressed support for the university.<\/p>\n

“Minsk\u2019s move to brand the European Humanities University – an accredited Belarusian university in exile in Vilnius – an \u201cextremist organization\u201d is outrageous. <\/em><\/p>\n

It puts students, faculty, and families at serious risk and obstructs access to independent, unbiased education.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is yet another hostile act by the Lukashenko regime against Lithuania and the EU. We stand ready to back the EHU community,”<\/em> Budrys wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, Belarus’s Supreme Court declared the Vilnius-based European Humanities University, together with its structural subdivisions, an “extremist organisation”.<\/p>\n

The Prosecutor General’s Office said that EHU’s activities are supervised by foreign states and foundations and claimed that the university’s work is aimed at “destabilising the socio-political situation” in Belarus. The Prosecutor General’s Office believes that the university is preparing Belarusian youth “to implement Western scenarios for transforming the political system, promoting so-called democratic values and ‘alternative’ interpretations of historical, cultural and other events”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foreign Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys called the Belarusian authorities’ decision to declare EHU an “extremist organisation” outrageous and expressed support for the university. “Minsk\u2019s move to brand the European Humanities University – an accredited Belarusian university in exile in Vilnius – an \u201cextremist organization\u201d is outrageous. It puts students, faculty, and families at serious risk and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69de7933db2ee.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Budrys Expresses Support for EHU"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533723","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=533723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}