Maxim, a Russian citizen, was arrested and found guilty of "calls to actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
In places of imprisonment he was subjected to systematic torture motivated by political and national hatred.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and was deported to Russia on March 24 of that year.
