The novel "Dogs of Europe" by Belarusian writer

Algerd Bakharevich

has been recognized by the authorities as "extremist".

The writer, who lives abroad, found out about it from a publication in a state newspaper and showed a fragment of the material on his Facebook.

An article in a newspaper under Lukashenka's administration is devoted to a search of the new Minsk bookstore Knihavka at 6 Zmitrak Byadula Street, where propagandists Azaronak, Gladkaya and Yaskevich had arrived the day before.

They asked provocative and mocking questions

to the owner

Andrei Yanushkevich .

Then security officers detained Yanushkevich and a bookstore employee

Nasta Karnatskaya

.

Later it became known that Yanushkevich was sentenced to 10 days in jail.

In addition, they confiscated 200 books from him, and an "examination" will be carried out on 15 editions.

As noted by the World Bank in its publication, the first edition of "Dogs of Europe", commissioned by the publishing house "Januszkiewicz" in Lithuania, was arrested by Belarusian services at the border.

The novel was later recognized as "extremist material."

In it, the state examination allegedly found "incitement of social, political and ideological enmity", as well as "calls for riots for the illegal seizure of power."

"Dogs of Europe" is a novel by Algerd Bakharevich, published in 2017 by Logvinov Publishing House.

The novel consists of six great stories woven into one.

In 2018, the book took 2nd place in the Giedroyc Prize, which led to the establishment of an alternative Reader's Prize for the novel "Dogs of Europe".

According to the novel, the Free Theater has created a play, in March 2022 in London, its world premiere.