Yury worked as a teacher and from 2001 headed the "Pruzhanski Palatsyk" museum, which hosted exhibitions and music evenings. In August 2020, he was dismissed "by agreement of the parties".
In December 2021, his home was searched, after which Yury was detained for several days.
In April 2022, he was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article "Slander" and sentenced to restricted freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility. What exactly the court considered slander is unknown.
