List of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus
State propaganda

List of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus

Section Title: State propaganda
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Name	Position	Reasons for listing	Remarks

Liliya Ananich	First Deputy Minister of Information	Promotion of state propaganda

Dzmitry Zhuk	Director General of the state news agency BelTA

Alexander Zimovsky	Media adviser and former President of the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus	"The main actor of the regime's propaganda until December 2010"	Also subject to United States sanctions

Nikolai Cherginets	Upper House of the Parliament, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Head of the government-loyal Union of writers, Chairman of the Morality Republican Public Council	"A close supporter of President Lukashenka, and key to the regime's propaganda and censorship"

Gennadi Davydko	Head of the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus	"Responsible for promoting state propaganda on TV, propaganda which supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society after the elections in December 2010."

Vadzim Hihin	Editor-in-Chief of Belaruskaya Dumka, a monthly journal of the President's Administration	"One of the most vocal and influential members of the state propaganda machine in the printed press. He has supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Pavel Yakubovich	Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, Editor-in-Chief; Member of the Upper House of the Parliament appointed by President Lukashenka	"One of the most vocal and influential members of the state propaganda machine in the printed press. He has supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Vsevolod Yanchevski	Presidential Administration of Belarus, Head of the Ideological Department; Assistant to the President	"The main creator of the regime's ideology and state propaganda, which supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Yuri Koziyatko	Stolichnoe Televidenie, TV host, General Director	His TV show "is an instrument of state propaganda which supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Aliaksei Mikhalchanka	ONT, TV host, influential journalist	His "programme is an instrument of state propaganda on TV, which supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"	Managed to get sanctions against him lifted in 2014, following procedural flaws of EU's prolongation of sanctions in 2012

Yuri Prokopov	Belarus-1, TV host, journalist	His TV show "is an instrument of state propaganda on TV, which supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Oleg Proleskovsky	Minister of Information, Presidential Administration, former Deputy Head, former Head of General Directorate for Ideology and Centre of Analysis and Information	"One of the main sources and voices of state propaganda and ideological support for the regime"

Anatoli Rubinov	Upper House of the Parliament, Chairman; Presidential Administration, Former Deputy Head in charge of Media and Ideology (in 2006-2008)	"One of the main sources and voices of state propaganda and ideological support for the regime"

Aleksandr Bazanov	Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration, Director	"He is one of the main sources of state propaganda, which supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society."

Siarhei Gardzienka	Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, Deputy Editor-in-Chief	"Responsible for relaying state propaganda in the printed press, which has supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society, systematically highlighted in a negative and derogatory way using falsified and untrue information"

Aleksei Gusev	Information and Analytical Centre of the President's Administration, Former first Deputy Director	"A source and voice of state propaganda, which provokes, supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Alena Kolas	Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration, Deputy Director

Lev Krishtapovich	Information and Analytical Centre of the Presidential Administration, Deputy Director

Igor Laptionok	Former Deputy Minister of Information	He "played a major role in promoting state propaganda which supports and justifies the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society"

Anatol Lemiashonak	Respublika, Editor-in-Chief	"In his position he is one of the most vocal and influential members of the state propaganda machine in the printed press"

Mikhail Lebedik	Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, First deputy Editor-in-Chief	His newspaper is a "source of pro-governmental policy, falsifying facts and making unfair comments on the ongoing processes in Belarus against the democratic opposition and civil society"

Hanna Shadryna	Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Aleksandr Taranda	Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, Editor-in-Chief

Halina Tarapetskaya	Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, Deputy Editor-in-Chief

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Vsevolod Yanchevski is one of the person of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus.

final_sentence: Vsevolod Yanchevski is one of the person of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus.