Marina is originally from Babruisk. In 2007, she graduated from the choral conducting department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music. She remained in Minsk.
Marina has been teaching for over 15 years. She taught at the children's vocal studio at Belarusian State University and at children's music schools in Minsk. She also directs the "Pretty Bend" ensemble and teaches at Veronika Yanovskaya's music school, which was also recently awarded a home chemistry degree.
She was detained at the end of June 2025. She was held in the Okrestina temporary detention facility, after which she was scheduled to be transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 1. She most likely remained in custody pending trial.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Liliya and Alexander Pozharitsky are a family of outstanding accordion teachers, recognized with many state awards.
For over 30 years, Liliya has taught at the Republican Gymnasium-College of the Belarusian State Academy of Music. Pozharitskaya has twice received a presidential grant (2016, 2018) and has been awarded several state certificates.
The couple was convicted for participating in protests in 2020.
Trial outcome 01.09.2025
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Liliya and Alexander Pozharitsky are a family of outstanding accordion teachers, recognized with many state awards.
Alexander works at Children's Music and Arts School No. 17 in Minsk and holds a teaching degree from the highest category. He heads the Folk Instruments (Button Accordion) department. He is the author of over 40 works, several of which have been published as books.
The couple was convicted for participating in protests in 2020.
Trial outcome 01.09.2025
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Andrey was supposed to be tried in the fall of 2025 for participating in the protests. But there was no full trial. He was "released due to the expiration of the term of his conviction." But his name was still added to the "list of extremists" maintained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Journalist Kyrylo Poznyak was arrested on September 4, the day the YouTube channel "Platform 375" was designated an "extremist group." In 2021-2022, the channel hosted several debates between pro-government propagandists and their opponents forced to flee the country. Kyrylo Poznyak was one of the debate moderators. In his opening remarks, he stated that the debates were necessary to create "a platform for dialogue so that opponents can at least hear each other out," and to "raise the level and culture of debate and discussion," giving the disputants the opportunity to "broadcast not only to their own audience, but also to the audience of undecided people and the public of their opponents."
The channel and its TikTok accounts were added to the "List of Organizations, Formations, and Individual Entrepreneurs Involved in Extremist Activity" on September 11.
On September 16, 2026, he was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
Igor was arrested in the spring of 2025 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and in the summer of that year he was convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 11 in Brest.
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.
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).
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