Olga Chemodanova, press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, announced this in her Telegram channel.

“The TUT.BY media resource and its analogues in social networks and messengers have been recognized as extremist.

This decision was made today, on August 13, by the court of the Tsentralny district of Minsk at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ”the publication says.

Chemodanova noted that the expert commission recognized the media resource as a platform for the propaganda of extremist activities aimed at inciting social, political and ideological enmity or discord and organizing or carrying out mass riots.

The black list includes Internet resources TUT.BY, zеrkаlo.io, their counterparts in Telegram, Viber, Twitter, pages in social networks and mobile applications for smartphones.

“Now for the publication (repost) of information from the specified Internet resources, administrative responsibility and punishment are provided for up to arrest,” concluded the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

In May, the Ministry of Information of the Republic, on the basis of a notification from the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus, restricted access to the TUT.BY portal.

It is noted that the department has established numerous facts of violations of the law of Belarus on the media.