List of “extremist” content updated: Ukrainian TV channel, film about Pavel Sharamet, popular pranker’s pages

The infor­ma­tion reg­u­la­tor has once again updat­ed the data­base of “extrem­ists”. In addi­tion to the Belaru­sian media, this time the list includes a resource from Ukraine.

Pryamyi TV Chan­nel has 2,360,000 sub­scribers on YouTube, exten­sive­ly cov­ers Russ­ian mil­i­tary aggres­sion, and sharply crit­i­cizes Lukashenka’s regime for com­plic­i­ty in war crimes.

Anoth­er list item is implic­it­ly relat­ed to Ukraine. The video titled “New facts about the mur­der of Pavel Sharam­et” is clas­si­fied as “extrem­ist con­tent.” The sto­ry aired on Bel­sat TV chan­nel in July 2021 and was timed to an anniver­sary of the mur­der of the well-known jour­nal­ist in the cen­ter of Kyiv – exact­ly on the day of Ali­ak­san­dr Lukashenka’s first inau­gu­ra­tion. The inves­ti­ga­tion raised ques­tions as to why, after so much time, nei­ther the con­trac­tor, nor the motives of the assas­si­na­tion were named, and, most impor­tant­ly, about what role the Belaru­sian spe­cial ser­vices played in the mur­der of Pavel Sharam­et.

Anoth­er “extrem­ist lot” is the social media pages relat­ed to Hrod­na jour­nal­ist Rus­lan Kule­vich. He left for Poland because of per­se­cu­tion and found­ed the MOST mul­ti­me­dia project there. As a result, most of the con­tent pro­duced by his team was banned.

Anoth­er Hrod­na online com­mu­ni­ty on vk.com, Hrod­na News, was also declared extrem­ist.

Final­ly, a por­tion of the state’s atten­tion was also award­ed to vlog­ger Andrei Pavuk. He hasn’t lived in Belarus for a long time, but he makes top offi­cials ner­vous with his pranks. Two of his Tik­Tok accounts were banned by Krup­ki Dis­trict Court.

As of today, the total num­ber of items harm­ful to the cur­rent Belaru­sian regime is approach­ing 1500.