{"id":45862,"date":"2023-02-25T23:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/freed-journalist-to-keep-up-youtube-project\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"freed-journalist-to-keep-up-youtube-project","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45862\/","title":{"rendered":"Freed journalist to keep up YouTube project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 25, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b>&nbsp;Freed footballer, journalist and blogger Alaksandr Ivulin&nbsp;says he will continue to work on his YouTube project <span>ChestnOK<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p> When he served his sentence, the project was managed by his co-author, journalist Jaras\u0142a\u016d Pisarenka.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe channel is here to stay, and we will think how to have both Jaryk and me here,\u201d Ivulin said on YouTube on February 25.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe really want to do something Belarusian for Belarusians,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p> On February 24, the Bysol Foundation organized crowdfunding for the freed journalist. The requested \u20ac3,100 were gathered in less than a day.<\/p>\n<p> Thanking the foundation and donors for support, Ivulin said he would spend the money on a laptop, a phone&nbsp;and \u201chealth issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <span>ChestnOK<\/span> has more than 80,000 subscribers on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p> The general public learned of Ivulin\u2019s release on February 23, when he had already left Belarus. He now stays in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p> The journalist had been in custody since June 2021. First, authorities jailed him for allegedly displaying a white-red-white flag in his apartment&#8217;s window. Later, he was charged with participating in protests over pictures from 2020 protest rallies.<\/p>\n<p> Authorities also said Ivulin&#8217;s <span>ChestnOK <\/span>YouTube channel allegedly contained videos with negative assessments of the Belarusian government that discredited the political and social situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, Ivulin was given a two-year prison term. 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When he served his sentence, the project was managed by his co-author, journalist Jaras\u0142a\u016d Pisarenka. \u201cThe channel is here to stay, and we will think how to have both Jaryk and me here,\u201d Ivulin said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45862","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>Freed journalist to keep up YouTube project | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 25, BPN.&nbsp;Freed footballer, journalist and blogger Alaksandr Ivulin&nbsp;says he will continue to work on his YouTube project ChestnOK. 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