{"id":194909,"date":"2026-07-08T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/194909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:22:19","slug":"belarus-kgb-brands-ukrainian-news-project-as-extremist-group","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/194909\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 KGB brands Ukrainian news project as \u201cextremist\u201d group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>July 8, Pozirk. <\/strong>The Belarusian Committee for State Security (KGB) branded the Ukrainian news aggregator <em>Fabryka Novyn<\/em> (News Factory) as an \u201cextremist&#8221; group, says the updated register on the interior ministry&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KGB listed Rostyslav Bunyak, Yuryj Byby and Evhenyya Kuntova as members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is part of the <em>Platforma<\/em> news aggregator created by Bunyak and his team. Its YouTube channel has 4.34 million subscribers and is known for using clickbait-style headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official list of \u201cextremist\u201d groups by the Belarusian KGB and interior ministry now contains 374 entries. The actual number of designated groups is 358, as some are mentioned several times in different contexts. Sixty-one of the listed groups are media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the crackdown on the 2020 postelection protests, authorities in Belarus have equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, the free media and free expression to extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Interior ministry brands former Kalino\u016dski fighter, eight others as \u201cextremists\u201d<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">July 6, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added nine new names to its list of people it considers \u201cinvolved in extremist activities,\u201d taking the total to 6,754 entries. Three of them are reportedly serving sentences, including designated political prisoner Andrej &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/194571\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read <\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, Pozirk. The Belarusian Committee for State Security (KGB) branded the Ukrainian news aggregator Fabryka Novyn (News Factory) as an \u201cextremist&#8221; group, says the updated register on the interior ministry&#8217;s website. The KGB listed Rostyslav Bunyak, Yuryj Byby and Evhenyya Kuntova as members. The project is part of the Platforma news aggregator created by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70479,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-194909","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus\u2019 KGB brands Ukrainian news project as \u201cextremist\u201d group | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 8, Pozirk. 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