The leader of the organizing committee of the National Bolshevik Party of Belarus Eugene Kontush was detained in Minsk on Thursday, December 30. According to the spokesman of the organizing committee Dmitri Siniak, the leader of the National Bolsheviks was taken to the KGB for questioning on his participation in the unsanctioned rally on December 19.
Eugene Kontush was detained immediately after the search of his apartment, during which KGB agents seized a computer, flash cards, campaign materials and the newspapers of the National-Bolshevik «Shturm» and «Limonka,» Dmitri Siniak said in his blog.
Dmitri Siniak also said that security officials forced him to call to the member of the unregistered party Valeri Kabernik and ask to come for the KGB questioning and write an explanation about his whereabouts in the evening on December 19.
According to Telegraf, the KGB also intended to search Valeri Kabernik’s apartment on December 30. However, he refused to let the KGB officers in.