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Nikolai graduated from the Physics Department of BSU, after university he went to work for InterVelopers, which soon began collaborating with Wargaming. Since 2002, Nikolai began managing business development in the company and still holds this position. The businessman, according to CSE, owns about 17% of Wargaming shares. Yezhednevnik traditionally included him in the list of the most influential Belarusian businessmen - in the 2021 rating, he took 18th place.
Propaganda films claim he made “dozens of cryptocurrency transfers” worth “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to various causes deemed extremist.
Now Katselapov is free and abroad, so a special case has been opened against him.
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The operator of machine tools at the Minsk tractor plant, According to telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus, was detained for participating in a protest action in 2020.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
A leading specialist of one of the departments of MTBank was detained together with her husband, but released on bail pending trial, since the family has a minor child.
According to the prosecution, on August 30, 2020, Sergei and Margarita took an active part in an unauthorized mass event in Minsk.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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Human rights activist and member of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" (HRC "Viasna"). Dmitry Solovyov has been engaged in human rights activities for more than 20 years, previously he headed the Novopolotsk branch of the Human Rights Center "Vesna". Dmitry Solovyov is one of the organizers of independent observation of elections in Belarus within the framework of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign, including in the 2020 elections, as well as a participant in many international independent observation missions. The human rights activist also participates in the work of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.
8 years of imprisonment in a colony in absentia.
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A software engineer from Mogilev, was detained in October 2022 for participating in protests in Minsk in 2020. Alexander was transferred to a pre-trial detention center and charged.
2 years of restriction of freedom with assignment to an open correctional facility ("chemistry")
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Deputy Director of the Minsk Bicycle Society. He was detained on November 29, 2022 at work, then he was taken to an apartment to conduct a search there. During the search, law enforcement officers seized a phone and a laptop.
First, Maxim was sentenced to 11 days of administrative arrest, then he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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The developer of the «ICON GAMES» studio, was detained at the end of November 2022 for participating in the post-election protests of 2020 and writing insulting comments.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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Belarusian statesman, diplomat, initiator and creator of the Hi-Tech Park. Member of the 2020 presidential campaign.
17 years in prison in absentia.
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Natalia was first convicted in January 2023 for an online comment under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to one and a half years of restricted freedom, known as "house arrest."
In September of that year, Natalia was arrested again and convicted on a new criminal charge, accused of "financing extremist activity" for supporting political prisoners through money transfers.
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Maxim was detained from 8 to 10 November 2022. Then he changed the measure of restraint to a written undertaking not to leave.
On April 29, 2021, the Pruzhany court accused the man of leaving insulting comments about employees of state bodies for coordinating foreign policy and foreign economic activity under a post on the Telegram channel. The man admitted his guilt and repented of his deed.
Maxim has a secondary education and worked as a developer of raw materials at a Pruzhany enterprise.
2 years of restriction of liberty without referral to an open correctional facility
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
He was detained in Zhlobin in November. The guy was accused of participating in the protests in 2020. Before the trial, he was at large.
2 years of restriction of freedom without referral to a correctional institution.
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He lived in Minsk and worked at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Cardiology. In October 2022, armed law enforcement officers broke into the apartment, laid Anton on the floor, then took him to the District Department of Internal Affairs. He was detained for participating in protest actions in September 2020 in Grodno. Then the guy studied at the Grodno Medical University.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.