{"id":164031,"date":"2025-11-13T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164031\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarusian-media-plan-b-designated-by-minsk-as-extremist-group","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164031\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian media Plan B designated by Minsk as extremist group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>November 13, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) on November 5 designated <em>Plan B<\/em>, an independent media organization, as an extremist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The designation potentially carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years for anyone charged with creating or being a member of the group. The KGB identified show host Volha \u0141ojka and journalists Andrej Macho\u016dski and D\u017amitryj Smirno\u016d as individuals associated with <em>Plan B<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0141ojka, ex-editor of the <em>Tut.by<\/em> media outlawed by the Belarusian government, went into exile and set up Plan B in June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minsk declared <em>Plan B<\/em> accounts \u201cextremist content\u201d in July 2023, banning users from watching or sharing its shows and posts. In April this year, \u0141ojka was designated as an extremist. She is also on the government\u2019s list of terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus has blocked access to <em>Plan B<\/em> since June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 13, Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) on November 5 designated Plan B, an independent media organization, as an extremist group. The designation potentially carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years for anyone charged with creating or being a member of the group. The KGB identified show host Volha \u0141ojka and journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":121801,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-164031","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>Belarusian media Plan B designated by Minsk as extremist group | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 13, Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) on November 5 designated Plan B, an independent media organization, as an extremist\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164031\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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