The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus is the national intelligence agency, and secret police force of Belarus. Along with its counterparts in Transnistria and South Ossetia, it kept
KGB headquarters in Minsk
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. The largest anti-government protests
State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus
…police activities and human rights abuses. In September 2021, a member of the Alpha Group died while conducting a raid against a participant in the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. The KGB's database, containing 40,000 messages received from the public over nine years, was hacked and published online in 2024…
Protests on 16 August 2020 in Minsk
Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (left) alongside a crowd of supporters in Minsk on 30 July
First press conference of the Coordination Council on 18 August 2020
Rally in memory of Alexander Taraikovsky on 15 August