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Ivan most recently worked at Belenergo, installing and configuring fiber-optic networks and communications.

Ivan is a very active Telegram commentator. From 2019 to 2025, he left over 50,000 messages in open chats. Most of them weren't political—he discussed technology, offering professional advice on editing and network tools. However, he also wrote about politics. Kochanov supported the movement for free elections and condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, he criticized Europe and NATO, spoke out against the persecution of Belarusians abroad and repression, as well as against repression for the Russian language in Ukraine, as this "incites aggression."

He was convicted for comments in a chat room deemed extremist and for participating in protests in 2020. Two weeks after being transferred to the penal colony, Ivan was charged with a second criminal case related to the "Belarusian Gayun" chat room and was again transferred to a pretrial detention facility.

The younger brother of Belarusian volunteer Denis Urbanovich.

After a search in April 2025, Maxim was detained . According to preliminary data, the apartment where he lived with his girlfriend was sealed. At first, he was held in the KGB pretrial detention center, now he is in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1.

Most likely he was arrested in early December 2024.

Alexander graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and went to work in the police. He rose to the rank of duty inspector of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee and the rank of captain. In 2012, he was dismissed from the police.

In 2013, Mazurin got a job as the head of the security department at the woodworking company Interdoors. The company employs more than 150 people.

Alexander also has the status of an individual entrepreneur, whose area of activity is software development and consulting in this area.

After finishing school, he entered the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at BSU. Since 2005, he has been working in IT.

At the end of 2021, Solozhentsev moved to Warsaw. There he opened an individual entrepreneurship and got a job at RunMyLease, where he holds the position of Tech lead.

Sergey's main hobby is ballroom dancing. In 2024, he and his partner won two gold and one silver at dance competitions in Poland in the 40+ category.

Then Sergei returned to Belarus. It is not known when exactly this happened, but the last time he contacted was at the end of October 2024. The trial of the IT specialist took place in the Grodno Regional Court. Judging by the fact that after the trial Solozhentsev never appeared online, he was sentenced to a term in a penal colony.

She holds Russian citizenship. She was detained on April 23 , 2025, and her home was searched the same day. She was detained in connection with a criminal case involving messages posted to the "Belarusian Gayun " bot .

Yaroslava is originally from Rogachev. At some point, she moved to Mozyr, likely right after graduating from university.

In recent years, she worked as a teacher in a village school. She taught German at the Moiseevskaya Basic School in the small agricultural town of the same name. She also served as a teacher organizer.

Detained as part of a criminal case for messages in the "Belorussky Gayun" bot.

Margarita, Tina Palynskaya's eldest daughter, was detained along with her mother at the end of May 2025. Both are in custody on criminal charges.

The details of the charges have not been officially disclosed. Based on circumstantial evidence, there is an assumption that the case may be connected with the KGB's decision to recognize the "Belarusian Analytical Workshop" of Professor Andrei Vardomatsky as an extremist organization. This organization conducted sociological surveys among Belarusian citizens. At the moment, there is no confirmation that Tina or her daughter actually participated in the BAM research. But even if such participation had taken place, it would not have violated the law: at the time of possible contact with the workshop, it had not yet been recognized as an extremist organization.

A journalist and Catholic believer from Polotsk, Tina had long since retired from journalism, raising two daughters and working in archives, including Russian ones, fulfilling private commissions for biographical essays, family books, and stories about World War II veterans.

Earlier, in 2022, the journalist was tried on administrative charges and heavily fined for wearing yellow and blue ribbons on her bag, while the Investigative Committee investigated her Facebook post and searched her home.

She has been out of contact since the end of May 2025. Tina and her eldest daughter, Margarita, 22, are in custody on criminal charges. Tina also has a younger daughter, 14, who is underage.

Details of the charges have not been officially disclosed. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the case may be connected to the KGB's decision to designate Professor Andrei Vardomatsky's Belarusian Analytical Workshop as an extremist group. This organization conducted sociological surveys among Belarusian citizens. There is currently no confirmation that Tina or her daughter actually participated in the BAM research. But even if such participation had occurred, it would not have violated the law: at the time of possible contact with the workshop, it had not yet been designated an extremist group.

On October 13, 2025, it became known that Tina’s husband, writer Ales Polynsky , had died .

On 13.02.2025, he was convicted under an administrative article (Part 2 of Article 10.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Intentional infliction of bodily harm and other violent actions or violation of a protective order), after which a criminal case was opened.

He worked as a programmer at the Minsk plant "Atlant".

A former soldier of Kalinovsky's regiment. His arrest was announced in a news broadcast on state television "Belarus 1" on May 5, 2025.

According to information from social networks, he graduated from the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy (BSAA). His specialty is cadastral and land law.

He served in the 38th separate motorized defense brigade of Belarus - a paratrooper unit in Brest, which was once headed by Valery Sakhashchik. In the photo from social networks, you can see that the pennant of the brigade was hanging in Grechikha's apartment.

According to the press service of the Kalinovsky Regiment, Vasily joined them in May 2022, but left the unit in June of the same year at his own request.

According to the video, he was detained somewhere in a swampy area outside the city by several KGB officers with machine guns. The man was transported by helicopter. During the transportation, he had a black bag over his head and his hands were clasped in front with a plastic zip tie.

As reported in the video, Vasily was born on July 28, 1981. In February 2022, he went to Poland to work, and three months later he joined the Kalinovsky Regiment. He underwent training in Kiev. The circumstances of his detention are unknown.

Convicted for likes in 2020, when he was 18. The trial was likely on defamation charges.

Before his arrest, Anatoly was an individual entrepreneur and an active participant in the entrepreneurial movement. He is also known as an environmental activist during the construction and launch of the Svetlogorsk bleached cellulose plant, when numerous emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere occurred. Recently, he has been working in one of the enterprises in the field of car service.

He was detained in April 2025 under Part 2 of Article 367 (slander against Lukashenko) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. On April 25, 2025, he was transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3.

He was previously detained on February 14, 2023. He was also detained in 2020. Then in November, he was detained after a memorial event in memory of Roman Bondarenko, who was killed in Minsk. Anatoly was fined 40 b.v. Even earlier, Zmitrovich was brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 23.34 (violation of the procedure for holding mass events). Then he received a fine of 25 b.v.