Born in Ukraine. European kickboxing champion. Allegedly detained for wanting to fight in Ukraine.
In court, Pavel stated that he initially reacted emotionally to the war in Ukraine, but later abandoned the idea of fighting. Furthermore, Pavel is charged with illegally crossing the Russian border into Belarus with potent substances (100 stanozolol tablets) and illegally acquiring and possessing ammunition (16 9mm cartridge casings and 12 9mm rounds).
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 03.04.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
On the “repentant video” , he says that he left insulting comments about Lukashenka, and also allegedly registered in the chat bot of the Peramoga plan.
It is known that at least earlier he worked in the Ruzhansky sanatorium.
The man is accused of being the administrator of the Ruzhany 97% chat, which was recognized as extremist in January 2022. In general, the chat looks like it has been abandoned for a long time - pro-government media and videos of the security forces are reposted there, but no one deletes them.
The man's account was not hidden from the list of administrators; his profile picture and name, as well as his nickname, are on the avatar.
In 2020, a criminal case was opened against Yan, the editor of the NEXTA Telegram channels, under a number of articles, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hatred." As part of the special proceedings, in May 2023, he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony. According to the Belarusian state news agency BelTA, the defendants in the "case" are accused of committing at least 1,586 crimes, and a claim for more than 30 million rubles has been filed.
Earlier, the KGB included Yan on the “terrorist list”, and the NEXTA channel in Belarus was recognized as a “terrorist organization”.
The man, according to the materials of the prosecution, posted publications in Telegram in which he gave a negative assessment of Lukashenko — profanity was used in the messages. In them, the accused allegedly also called for violence against military man of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, law enforcement officers, incited national and social enmity: «Russian invaders participating in the forcible seizure of foreign state territory by military force».
Trial outcome 31.03.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Dmitry was convicted of tearing down three red-and-green flags in December 2022, according to the prosecution. According to the case file, at the Sosedi store on Pushkinsky Prospekt, he "grabbed three pieces of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus from a metal rack, tore them from their plastic rods, and threw them on the floor." The prosecution characterized these actions as "motivated by political and ideological hatred."
Trial outcome 22.02.2023
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Olga was convicted for a Facebook post made back in 2020.
According to the investigation, by posting on her page, the woman demonstrated “a desire to present the authority of the head of state in a humiliated state in the eyes of the general public, choosing a method of disseminating false information and insults against the head of the country, designed to be familiar to a wide circle of people.”
She is expected to be released in early spring 2025.
05.07.2023
15 июня поставлена на учёт как лицо склонное к экстремизму
Trial outcome 24.02.2023
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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