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Yaroslav Ivanyuk is an ethnic Belarusian, but was born and lives in Poland. He graduated from a Belarusian school in Podlasie and was raised in a Belarusian environment. He was a member of the Belarusian student association. He worked in the Belarusian editorial office of Polish Radio in Warsaw and on the program "Under the Sign of Pursuit" on Polish Radio in Bialystok. For five years, he was the program director of the Belarusian service of Radio Racija.
“My life is connected with the Belarusian people, and the fact that I am involved in it is a natural thing for me,” he notes.
Yaroslav is the founder and publisher of the Kamunikat online library. The Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus blocked access to the Kamunikat.org online library without explanation in 2023. The Kamunikat.org foundation's office is located in Białystok. The Ministry of Information did not inform the Kommunikat foundation of its intentions or reasons for blocking access to the online library.
On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation , Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." The list mentions Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos, Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Alexander Yevdakha in connection with this group . The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
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A well-known Belarusian publisher, founder and director of the independent publishing house "Logvinaў" (Lohvinau).
In 2014, Igor Logvinov was awarded the prestigious International Publishers Association (IPA) Freedom to Publish Award for his courage in defending freedom of speech. For a long time, the popular "Logvinov Bookstore" operated in Minsk, serving as an important cultural hub, but was later closed by the authorities during a crackdown on independent cultural venues.
In subsequent years, activities continued mainly outside of Belarus (in particular, in Vilnius) due to the impossibility of legal operation within the country.
On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." The list mentions Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos, Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Alexander Yevdakha in connection with this group . The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
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Yanushkevich Publishing House is one of the leaders in the Belarusian literature market and the commissioner of many translations of foreign literature into Belarusian, including bestsellers such as Harry Potter and The Witcher.
Andrei Yanushkevich opened the Knigauka bookstore in Minsk in 2022. The store was open for just one day when security forces raided the premises and detained Andrei and a female employee. After nearly a month,
In 2024, he opened the "Knigaўka" bookstore in Warsaw. It offers nearly 200 titles. All of them were published by Belarusian publishers abroad —primarily "Yanushkevich," but also "Gutenberg Publisher," "Vyasna," "Myane Nyama," "Kamunіkat," "Pflyaўbaўm," "Skaryna," and others.
On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos, Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich , and Alexander Yevdakha were named in connection with the group. The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added. The publishers, based in Belarus, were detained in February 2026.
Alexander Evdakha is a book distributor who runs the website KNIHI.BY, which is currently unavailable.
On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." The list mentions Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos, Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Alexander Yevdakha in connection with this group. The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
This is not the first time Yevdakha has been subjected to repression by the regime. In 2017, he was implicated in the "White Legion" case and spent over three months in pretrial detention. The case fell apart before reaching trial. Previously, in 2012, he was sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegally selling books. In 2021, he was taken in for questioning.
Released in March 2026.
The Bogdanovich family of publishers—a married couple, Elena and Vaclav, and their daughters, Antonina and Victoria —were detained in Minsk, along with a mass arrest of book publishers and distributors. Law enforcement officers raided the employees of both active and closed publishing houses.
It was later revealed that Elena and Antonina had been released. All that was known about Victoria was that she was serving an administrative sentence; whether she was subsequently released is unknown.
On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." Victoria's father, Vaclav Bogdanovich, was also named in connection with the group. The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
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The Bogdanovich family of publishers—a married couple, Elena and Vaclav, and their daughters, Antonina and Victoria—were detained in Minsk, along with a mass arrest of book publishers and distributors. Law enforcement officers raided the employees of both active and closed publishing houses.
It later became known that Elena and Antonina had been released.
On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." The list mentions Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos, Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Alexander Yevdakha in connection with this group. The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
Released in March 2026.
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Belarusian translator, literary scholar, and publisher. One of the most renowned popularizers of translated world literature.
Dmitry, the son of literary critic Georgy Kolos and brother of film director and teacher Vladimir Kolos, made a name for himself in the 1980s with his translations from French into Belarusian. Since the 1990s, Kolos has been involved in publishing. The Zmitser Kolas Publishing House is known for publishing world poetry, prose, and plays in the best Belarusian translations.
Dmitry was previously detained by the KGB in early March 2023. However, he was released after 10 days in custody, which he spent in a KGB pretrial detention center. He has not been charged.
In February 2026, Dmitry was arrested again, amid mass arrests of book publishers and distributors. Dmitry spent 14 days in the Okrestina detention center, after which he was never released. On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos , Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Alexander Evdakha were named in connection with the group. The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
On September 16, 2026, he was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.