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Belarus \u201cremains one of few European countries that still have not fully declassified the archives of the Soviet secret services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged Belarus to follow the example of Ukraine and the Baltic states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 9, Pozirk. Pavie\u0142 Barko\u016dski, an exiled Belarusian opposition politician, has urged the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office to immediately open their archives to the public. In his statement on International Archives Day, released by the United Transitional Cabinet, Barko\u016dski stressed that declassifying KGB security and other archives is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":107503,"template":"","rubric":[13],"class_list":["post-141977","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Opposition politician urges KGB to declassify archives | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 9, Pozirk. 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