The Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs) of Belarus has replenished the list of extremist formations and made a Telegram-Chat “Zhdanovichi 2020 – Lovers club of Tsoi songs.” This is reported by the press service of the department in Telegram channel.
Now the organizers, participants and subscribers of this Telegram channel may threate up to seven years of imprisonment for participation in “extremist activities”. In addition, noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after serving the sentence in prison, Viktor Tsoi may deport or deprive Belarusian citizenship.
previously the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic recognized the Extremist formation of the Telegram-channel “Friends of People’s Self-Defense – DNS”, the opposition initiative of the “Workers’ Ruh” (“Working Movement” – approx. “Tapes.ru”) and some other Internet resources.
On October 13, the Council of Ministers of the Republic signed a resolution “On measures to counter extremism and the rehabilitation of Nazism”, according to which the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus will also publish a list of citizens, foreigners and public organizations involved in the opinion of the country’s leadership, to extremist activities.
before that it became known that the authorities of Belarus intend to prosecute to the criminal responsibility of followers of Telegram-channels recognized by extremist formations. This classification has recently received many opposition channels that actively covered protests in the country after presidential elections in 2020. Then the song of the Soviet rock musician Viktor Tsoi “Change” became anthem of Belarusians on protests against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.