{"id":542044,"date":"2026-05-13T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542044"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:51:21","slug":"communities-nostalgic-for-the-ussr-declared-extremist-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/communities-nostalgic-for-the-ussr-declared-extremist-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Communities Nostalgic for the USSR Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019 Ministry of Information has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials.\u201d Among the additions are communities uniting people who deny the collapse of the USSR: the VKontakte page \u201cMahilyow and Mahilyow Region USSR\/BSSR,\u201d as well as the Telegram chats \u201cUSSR Information Chat\u201d and \u201cByelorussian SSR.\u201d The corresponding ruling was issued on May 11, 2026, by the Leninski District Court of Mahilyow.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TikTok pages \u201cDARMAED,\u201d \u201cLichalapouski,\u201d \u201clisbet25730,\u201d \u201cbasta_bel,\u201d \u201cArturs Burinskis,\u201d \u201cBELPOL,\u201d \u201czhekapobeda,\u201d and \u201cAnna Samokhina\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Instagram page \u201csolibel.no\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Facebook pages \u201cAleksandr Rykov,\u201d \u201cBoris David Balte,\u201d \u201cValantsiorski Tsentr Sustriecha,\u201d and \u201cAnton Malkin\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the X page \u201cKarani Bielaruskai\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the YouTube channel \u201cAnna Samokhina.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should be recalled that in Belarus, accusations of extremism are used by the authorities to fight opponents of <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019 Ministry of Information has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials.\u201d Among the additions are communities uniting people who deny the collapse of the USSR: the VKontakte page \u201cMahilyow and Mahilyow Region USSR\/BSSR,\u201d as well as the Telegram chats \u201cUSSR Information Chat\u201d and \u201cByelorussian SSR.\u201d The corresponding ruling was issued on May 11, 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0570ee66c52.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Communities Nostalgic for the USSR Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542044","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=542044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}