Natalya Golovchuk

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: August 25, 2025

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Hrodna

Additional information:

The Leninsky District Court of Hrodna has recognised the social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte, as well as a page on the website patreon.com, belonging to the blogger from Homel, Danuta Khlusnya, as extremist informational material. “Danuta Khlusnya” is the creative pseudonym of the video blogger from Homel, Natalya Golovchuk, a former state television journalist who left her job in 2017 in protest against censorship in state media. Since then, her videos have offered a satirical, and at times serious, retelling of Belarusian news on the economy, politics, and culture.