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Community of Railway Workers of Belarus
Belarusian opposition initiative From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Community of Railway Workers of Belarus (Russian: Сообщество железнодорожников Беларуси, romanized: Soobshchestvo zheleznodorozhnikov Belarusi) is a Belarusian opposition initiative of railway workers, recognized by the Belarusian authorities as an extremist formation.[2][3]
Telegram channel "Live. The Community of Railway Workers of Belarus" was created in August 2020, a week after the presidential election and the start of mass demonstrations against Alexander Lukashenko.[4]
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the community has been carrying out railroad sabotage in order to undermine the logistics of the Russian army.[4][1][5]
On 21 March 2022, the "Community of Railway Workers was recognized as an extremist formation by a decision taken by the KGB of Belarus on March 21 because "a group of citizens united through the Telegram chat "Community of Railway Workers of Belarus" carries out extremist activities."[6][7][8][9]
As of 30 March 2022, at least 40 railway workers were reportedly detained for subscribing to the movement's telegram channel.[10]
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