According to information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he is involved in the “extremist” formation “Da Zorau” together with the musician Ales Chumakov.
Semyon is the son of Vasily Malashenkov, who worked for Sputnik and other Russian media outlets. The political prisoner, by contrast, had since the age of 14 “taken part in all the Belarusian-language chats and all the events. Wherever there was something Belarusian going on, he was there too,” as an acquaintance of Semyon’s recalled. He also said that Malashenkov had not considered emigrating.
