In December 2024, he was convicted of distributing, producing, storing, and transporting information products containing calls for or promoting extremist activity. In April 2025, he was arrested again, this time on charges related to political persecution.
Historian , ethnographer .
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
