{"id":45161,"date":"2023-01-02T21:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/owner-of-blacklisted-souvenir-store-leaves-belarus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"owner-of-blacklisted-souvenir-store-leaves-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45161\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of blacklisted souvenir store leaves Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>January 2, <span>BPN. <\/span><\/b>Juryj Kazakievi\u010d, owner of the Belarusian souvenir store Roskvit in Baranavi\u010dy, Brest region, has left Belarus and is now safe, he told <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I always treated the store not as a commercial project, but as a social and political one,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Otherwise, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to keep going on for so long. It turned out that the authorities treated it the same way. During the last two years, I had a strong feeling that the pressure [on me] was linked to the store operation in addition to my participation in protests.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Authorities closed Roskvit after Kazakievi\u010d&#8217;s arrest for allegedly distributing extremist content and forced him to purge his social media, threatening with criminal persecution, he said. Eventually, charges of illegal entrepreneurial activities convinced him to leave Belarus as soon as possible, Kazakievi\u010d added.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It became clear that I would soon find myself either abroad or behind bars,&#8221; Kazakievi\u010d said. &#8220;I never wanted to leave, I don&#8217;t even have a visa, but I had to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> A few months ago, police searched Kazakevi\u010d&#8217;s home and store. In late November, a court in the Brest region blacklisted the Roskvit&#8217;s website and Instagram page with 490 followers as extremist content.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Authorities used various excuses to close down a number of independent stores selling Belarusian merchandise. Pavie\u0142 Bie\u0142avus, founder and owner of the Symbal.by store, is in custody since November 2021 and faces charges of high treason, creating an extremist group and participating in protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2, BPN. Juryj Kazakievi\u010d, owner of the Belarusian souvenir store Roskvit in Baranavi\u010dy, Brest region, has left Belarus and is now safe, he told BPN. &#8220;I always treated the store not as a commercial project, but as a social and political one,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Otherwise, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to keep going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45161","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>Owner of blacklisted souvenir store leaves Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 2, BPN. 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