"Since August 2020, the main efforts of the Investigative Committee have been focused on identifying, suppressing and investigating the circumstances of criminal manifestations associated with illegal mass events, riots, protests, encroachment on state sovereignty and public safety," the ministry's website said.

The investigators clarified that the investigative divisions opened "4691 criminal cases on 4196 facts of such manifestations."

Earlier it became known that a court in Belarus recognized the information resources of the Polish TV channel Belsata as extremist.