{"id":567109,"date":"2026-08-11T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=567109"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:38:58","slug":"estonian-website-postimees-added-to-list-of-extremist-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/estonian-website-postimees-added-to-list-of-extremist-materials","title":{"rendered":"Estonian Website Postimees Added to List of \u201cExtremist Materials\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian Information Ministry continues to add media outlets from European countries to its list of \u201cextremist materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Euronews and Poland\u2019s state news agency PAP were added to the list. Now it is the turn of Estonia\u2019s oldest publication, Postimees. The newspaper was first published in 1857, and in the 21st century the Postimees website has become one of the country\u2019s leading online media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>On August 6, the Horki District Court ruled that Postimees\u2019 information products constituted \u201cextremist materials,\u201d after which it was added to the list.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Ministry also added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the TikTok account \u201cValera Belarus\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Threads page \u201cPavel Latushka\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Instagram account \u201cruhvolia\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Telegram bots \u201cLeaflet Bot,\u201d \u201cByProsvet Bot,\u201d \u201cDistributor Bot,\u201d \u201cBlack Card of Occupiers\u201d (with a logo), \u201cFrayMarta\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Telegram account \u201cBELZHD EDITOR\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the Telegram channel \u201cPOHONIA.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should be recalled that accusations of extremism are used in Belarus to persecute opponents of Lukashenka and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian Information Ministry continues to add media outlets from European countries to its list of \u201cextremist materials.\u201d Recently, Euronews and Poland\u2019s state news agency PAP were added to the list. Now it is the turn of Estonia\u2019s oldest publication, Postimees. The newspaper was first published in 1857, and in the 21st century the Postimees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":567108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7aedb593155.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Estonian Website Postimees Added to List of \u201cExtremist Materials\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567109","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\/567109","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=567109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}