{"id":536617,"date":"2026-04-25T15:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=536617"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:31:20","slug":"neurologist-ruslan-badamshin-added-to-extremist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/neurologist-ruslan-badamshin-added-to-extremist-list","title":{"rendered":"Neurologist Ruslan Badamshin Added to \u201cExtremist\u201d List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Interior Ministry has added another 17 individuals to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Among those included are Russian citizen <b>Roman Sharkov<\/b> and neurologist <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/vracha-nevrologa-ruslana-badamshina-prigovorili-k-2-5-godam-kolonii\"><b>Ruslan Badamshyn<\/b><\/a>. In 2024, he was sentenced to three years of \u201chome chemistry\u201d for participating in protests, and in 2026 he received 2.5 years in a penal colony. A week earlier, the KGB had added him to the list of individuals involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/neurologist-ruslan-badamshyn-added-to-terrorist-list\">\u201cterrorist activity\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cextremist list\u201d now contains 6,543 names.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to target political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has added another 17 individuals to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity\u201d. Among those included are Russian citizen Roman Sharkov and neurologist Ruslan Badamshyn. In 2024, he was sentenced to three years of \u201chome chemistry\u201d for participating in protests, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69eda32b98dab.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Neurologist Ruslan Badamshin Added to \u201cExtremist\u201d List"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536617","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\/536617","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}