{"id":13976,"date":"2023-01-30T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/belarusian-kgb-adds-world-of-tanks-studio-boss-to-terrorist-list\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T19:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:03:05","slug":"belarusian-kgb-adds-world-of-tanks-studio-boss-to-terrorist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/belarusian-kgb-adds-world-of-tanks-studio-boss-to-terrorist-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian KGB provides World of Tanks studio boss to terrorist checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/zvHeA8RPKEW6dzDWt7bgmj.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Nikolai Katselapov, the chief enterprise improvement officer at World of Tanks studio Wargaming, seems to have been added to an inventory &#8220;of organisations and people concerned in terrorist actions&#8221;<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span> by Belarus&#8217; Committee for State Safety (or KGB, sure, as in <em>that <\/em>KGB). In a transfer which was possible sparked by Wargaming pulling out of Belarus<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span> following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, he&#8217;s accused below article 290-1\u2014&#8221;Financing of terrorist actions&#8221;\u2014of the Felony Code of the Republic of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Katselapov was really added to the checklist all the way in which again on December 30, but it surely was solely when unbiased Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span> (by way of Sport World Observer<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span>) reported on the story that it got here to wider public data. Nasha Niva believes that Katselapov remains to be free, which might make sense provided that Wargaming hasn&#8217;t been current in Belarus for practically a yr now, however hasn&#8217;t been in a position to get hold of remark from the corporate to date.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve additionally reached out to Wargaming to ask for touch upon this story, and can replace this piece if I obtain a reply.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus has lengthy used its terrorist checklist as a political bludgeon. Previously, dissidents like opposition chief and former presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya have been added to it as a pretext to justify repression of teams and people hostile to president Alyaksandr Lukashenka. It is possible that Wargaming&#8217;s choice to vacate the nation again in April final yr offended the upper echelons of Belarus&#8217; authorities, notably provided that Wargaming was the nation&#8217;s largest recreation improvement studio: It was valued at over a billion {dollars} in 2016.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why Belarus has picked on Katselapov notably, although Nasha Niva theorises he might sooner or later have donated cash to opposition political figures. Regardless, he has turn into entry #993 on the newest model of Belarus&#8217; terrorist checklist, and it is wanting much more unlikely that Wargaming will return to its house nation anytime quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/belarusian-kgb-adds-world-of-tanks-studio-boss-to-terrorist-list\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Nikolai Katselapov, the chief enterprise improvement officer at World of Tanks studio Wargaming, seems to have been added to an inventory &#8220;of organisations and people concerned in terrorist actions&#8221; (opens in new tab) by Belarus&#8217; Committee for State Safety (or KGB, sure, as in that KGB). In a transfer which was possible sparked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[73,7016,138,7017,78,1258,4285,7018,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13977,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions\/13977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}