{"id":169962,"date":"2025-12-29T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/169962\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"information-ministry-bans-52-books-from-distribution-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/169962\/","title":{"rendered":"Information ministry bans 52 books from distribution in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 29,<em> Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarus\u2019 information ministry has banned an additional 52 books from distribution in the country, labeling them harmful to national interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the banned titles is <em>\u0411\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0420\u044d\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0430 1918\u20131920 \u0433\u0433.: \u043b\u044f \u0432\u044b\u0442\u043e\u043a\u0430\u045e \u0431\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0439 \u0434\u0437\u044f\u0440\u0436\u0430\u045e\u043d\u0430\u0441\u0446\u0456<\/em> (<em>The Belarusian People\u2019s Republic, 1918\u20131920: At the Cradle of Belarusian Statehood<\/em>), a monograph by Polish historian Dr. Dorota Michaluk, published in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has also prohibited several books aimed at children and teenagers, as well as <em>The Pear Field<\/em> by Georgian writer and filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, several works by Russian author Vladimir Sorokin, and books related to drugs. These include titles by William Burroughs, Nicholas Blincoe, Alexander Shulgin and Robert Forte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry\u2019s list of books banned from distribution now contains 225 titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/157893\/\">Sa\u0161a Filipienka, Irvin Welsh, Hunter S. Thompson among books banned by censors in Belarus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 29, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 information ministry has banned an additional 52 books from distribution in the country, labeling them harmful to national interests. Among the banned titles is \u0411\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0420\u044d\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0430 1918\u20131920 \u0433\u0433.: \u043b\u044f \u0432\u044b\u0442\u043e\u043a\u0430\u045e \u0431\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0439 \u0434\u0437\u044f\u0440\u0436\u0430\u045e\u043d\u0430\u0441\u0446\u0456 (The Belarusian People\u2019s Republic, 1918\u20131920: At the Cradle of Belarusian Statehood), a monograph by Polish historian Dr. Dorota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":102787,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-169962","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Information ministry bans 52 books from distribution in Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 29, Pozirk. 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