{"id":533987,"date":"2026-04-15T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533987"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:23:09","slug":"film-zywie-bielarus-viva-belarus-declared-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/film-zywie-bielarus-viva-belarus-declared-extremist","title":{"rendered":"Film &#8220;\u017bywie Bie\u0142aru\u015b!&#8221; (Viva Belarus!) Declared &#8220;Extremist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Information Ministry has updated the &#8220;Republican List of Extremist Materials&#8221;. Among other additions, it included the 2012 film &#8220;\u017bywie Bie\u0142aru\u015b!&#8221;\u00a0(Viva Belarus!) directed by <strong><b>Krzysztof \u0141ukaszewicz<\/b><\/strong>. The decision was made by the Homiel District Court on April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s main character is 23-year-old rock musician <strong><b>Miron<\/b><\/strong>, who opposes the regime of <strong>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> through his music and activism.<\/p>\n<p>The updated list also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instagram pages: Jaen, belhelcom_org, cyberbeaver_help, aleksandra_dojnicz, thekrama.store, center_for_civil_liberties (Center for Civil Liberties), belarusianyounggreens (Belarusian Young Greens), roznyjarounyja (Different-Equal), young.people.plus (Young People +);<\/li>\n<li>the Facebook page of the Belarusian Investigative Center;<\/li>\n<li>the TikTok page Raman Hladkikh;<\/li>\n<li>the Telegram channel Studfreedom | Belarus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use accusations of extremism to fight political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Information Ministry has updated the &#8220;Republican List of Extremist Materials&#8221;. Among other additions, it included the 2012 film &#8220;\u017bywie Bie\u0142aru\u015b!&#8221;\u00a0(Viva Belarus!) directed by Krzysztof \u0141ukaszewicz. The decision was made by the Homiel District Court on April 14, 2026. The film&#8217;s main character is 23-year-old rock musician Miron, who opposes the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":533986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69dfc98078f92.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Film &#171;\u017bywie Bie\u0142aru\u015b!&#187; (Viva Belarus!) Declared &#171;Extremist&#187;"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533987","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=533987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}