Coordination Council, Cichanoŭskaja’s team, pundit community blacklisted as extremist groups

January 26, BPN. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has blacklisted three opposition communities as extremist groups.

One of them is the Coordination Council, a successor to the Coordinating Council for Political Crisis Settlement. In particular, the interior ministry blacklisted its website rada.vision, several Telegram groups and social media accounts.

Authorities also blacklisted the team of Belarusian opposition leader Sviatłana Cichanoŭskaja, including her website tsikhanouskaya.org, several Telegram channels and social media accounts linked to her.

Another new entry on the extremist list is Analityki ST, a closed Telegram group of political analysts run by Cichanoŭskaja’s aide Franak Viačorka.

The interior ministry’s list of extremist groups has 114 entries.