{"id":536373,"date":"2026-04-24T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=536373"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:18:15","slug":"belarusian-council-for-culture-and-several-cultural-initiatives-declared-extremist-formations-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-council-for-culture-and-several-cultural-initiatives-declared-extremist-formations-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Council For Culture And Several Cultural Initiatives Declared \u201cExtremist Formations\u201d In Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u201cBelarusian Council for Culture\u201d and a number of cultural initiatives have been designated as \u201cextremist formations\u201d in Belarus. The decision was taken by the State Security Committee on April 9, 2026, and published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes the following initiatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBELARUSIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURE\u201d \/ \u201cBelaruskaya Rada Kultury\u201d \/ BCC;<\/li>\n<li>projects \u201cMahistrat\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVasminoh\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArtPower Belarus\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFoundation of the Belarusian Council for Culture\u201d \/ \u201cFUNDACJA BIA\u0141ORUSKA RADA KULTURY\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The record states that the following individuals are allegedly associated with them:<\/p>\n<p><b>Siarhiej Budkin<\/b>, born February 23, 1982<\/p>\n<p><b>Elina Ka\u0142niba\u0142ockaja<\/b>, born May 10, 1997<\/p>\n<p><b>Alena Rydzie\u016dskaja<\/b>, born February 23, 1980<\/p>\n<p><b>Nadzieja Haretskaja<\/b>, born July 1, 1987<\/p>\n<p><b>Cimafiej Akudovi\u010d<\/b>, born February 11, 1983<\/p>\n<p><b>Ba\u017eena Lis<\/b>, born November 21, 1997<\/p>\n<p><b>Alena Tur<\/b>, born June 11, 1991<\/p>\n<p><b>Katsiaryna Ramanchyk<\/b>, born September 20, 1987<\/p>\n<p><b>Alena Varanets<\/b>, born January 13, 1998<\/p>\n<p><b>Iryna Lukashenka<\/b>, born September 29, 1982<\/p>\n<p><b>Volha Mzhelskaya<\/b>, born June 14, 1986<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;A group of citizens forming the extremist formation \u2018BELARUSIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURE\u2019 \/ \u2018Belaruskaya Rada Kultury\u2019 \/ BCC, projects \u2018Mahistrat\u2019, \u2018Vasminoh\u2019 , \u2018ArtPower Belarus\u2019, \u2018Foundation of the Belarusian Council for Culture\u2019 \/ \u2018FUNDACJA BIA\u0141ORUSKA RADA KULTURY\u2019 carries out extremist activities&#8221;<\/i>, the \u201creference information\u201d states.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported earlier that in recent days searches and detentions of people linked to socio-cultural organisations have been carried out in various cities across Belarus. According to human rights defenders, investigators are looking for \u201cforeign funding\u201d. Some of those detained have been placed in pre-trial detention centres. Searches and interrogations are being conducted by KGB officers.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism-related charges to target opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBelarusian Council for Culture\u201d and a number of cultural initiatives have been designated as \u201cextremist formations\u201d in Belarus. The decision was taken by the State Security Committee on April 9, 2026, and published on Friday. The list includes the following initiatives: \u201cBELARUSIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURE\u201d \/ \u201cBelaruskaya Rada Kultury\u201d \/ BCC; projects \u201cMahistrat\u201d; \u201cVasminoh\u201d; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":536372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69eb6d9aaf806.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Council For Culture And Several Cultural Initiatives Declared \u201cExtremist Formations\u201d In Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536373","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=536373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}