{"id":543274,"date":"2026-05-18T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543274"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:47:48","slug":"kgb-designates-new-extremist-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kgb-designates-new-extremist-formation","title":{"rendered":"KGB Designates New \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A new \u201cextremist formation\u201d has been added to the Interior Ministry\u2019s list. The decision was made by the KGB on May 7 and was added to the registry today.<\/p>\n<p>The formation is listed as the \u201cBelarusian Association of Journalists.\u201d <b>Iryna Buraya<\/b> is allegedly linked to it. However, the registry lists not the BAJ website, but the Luninets-based website proinfo.news and its social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the \u201cBelarusian Association of Journalists\u201d had already been designated an extremist formation by a KGB decision in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, in Belarus, extremism-related accusations are used by security forces to fight opponents of Lukashenka and dissent in general.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-543237 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1716\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890.jpg 1716w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890-300x46.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890-1200x183.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890-768x117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890-1536x235.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2457890-870x133.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1716px) 100vw, 1716px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new \u201cextremist formation\u201d has been added to the Interior Ministry\u2019s list. The decision was made by the KGB on May 7 and was added to the registry today. The formation is listed as the \u201cBelarusian Association of Journalists.\u201d Iryna Buraya is allegedly linked to it. However, the registry lists not the BAJ website, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":510930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0ad237c2f69.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"KGB Designates New \u201cExtremist Formation\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543274","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=543274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}