{"id":559657,"date":"2026-07-14T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=559657"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:24:28","slug":"two-new-extremist-formations-designated-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/two-new-extremist-formations-designated-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Two New \u201cExtremist Formations\u201d Designated in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian Interior Ministry has designated the \u201cBelarusian Special Forces Unit 1514\u201d as an \u201cextremist formation\u201d, while the KGB has designated the Kamarouka project as one.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies believe that <b>Andrei Tratsieuski<\/b>, <b>Stanislau Shashko<\/b> and <b>Kiryl Balakhonau<\/b> are linked to the \u201cBelarusian Special Forces Unit 1514\u201d project, while <b>Dzmitry Zavadski<\/b>, <b>Volha Kasienchuk<\/b> and <b>Kseniya Kamenka<\/b> are linked to the Kamarouka project.<\/p>\n<p>Kamarouka describes itself as the first Belarusian international marketplace. The project offers Belarusian goods for sale, ranging from interior items to clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The 1514 special unit of Belarusian volunteers is part of the \u201cTimur Special Unit\u201d of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to target political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-559641\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-14-at-17.18.27.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-14-at-17.18.27.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-14-at-17.18.27-300x125.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-14-at-17.18.27-1200x500.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-14-at-17.18.27-768x320.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-14-at-17.18.27-870x362.jpeg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian Interior Ministry has designated the \u201cBelarusian Special Forces Unit 1514\u201d as an \u201cextremist formation\u201d, while the KGB has designated the Kamarouka project as one. Security agencies believe that Andrei Tratsieuski, Stanislau Shashko and Kiryl Balakhonau are linked to the \u201cBelarusian Special Forces Unit 1514\u201d project, while Dzmitry Zavadski, Volha Kasienchuk and Kseniya Kamenka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":559656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5654b08a4fc.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Two New \u201cExtremist Formations\u201d Designated in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559657","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=559657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}