Yury is a former goalkeeper of the Granit football club; he played for it in the 2006/2007 season.
On the evening of 9 January 2022, Yury was detained by traffic police officers. According to the prosecution, he used obscene language to insult Lukashenko in their car, at the hospital and on the way to the district police department.
In April 2022, Yury was found guilty in a criminal case of insulting Lukashenko and sentenced to imprisonment. The court considered as an aggravating circumstance his earlier conviction under the article on insulting a representative of the authorities: at that time he had dumped rubbish on a police car.
Released in October 2023 after serving his full sentence.
