All persecuted

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

In addition, the Kalinovites were given fines ranging from 500 to 3,500 base units (from 21,000 to 147,000 rubles).

On December 10, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

Daughter of political prisoner Elena Gnauk.

In January 2024, Alexandra was searched and detained for three days on the same day. A criminal case was opened for connections with an extremist group. She was forced to leave the Republic of Belarus with her children due to political persecution. After that, a second criminal case was opened against Alexandra. She is currently wanted.

He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .

In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.

A well-known Belarusian blogger, author of the channels "My Country is Belarus", "Lukashenko's Mustache". In June 2020, when the arrests of bloggers began, he left Belarus. In 2022, he stated that he was related to the press service of the Kalinovsky regiment in Ukraine, published photos in which he was with a weapon, in military uniform. Bespalov is currently participating in "Paspality Rushenni".

In August 2024, Igor Selikhanov's page on the Odnoklassniki social network was included in the republican list of extremist materials. According to the personal information posted on it, the man was born in 1975 in Orsha and graduated from Orsha Secondary School No. 6. Igor Selikhanov's last activity on his Odnoklassniki page was recorded in September 2022. Later, on other social networks, he reported that he lives in Warsaw.

Economist and Administrative Director of the BEROC Research Centre.

The case against Pavel Daneiko began on December 23, 2024, and special proceedings against him began on October 8. According to the prosecution, Daneiko joined the Coordination Council in August 2020 and "as its member, took active steps to achieve the goals of the unconstitutional seizure of state power."

She was detained and convicted twice (in 2020 and 2023) under an administrative article for a day at Okrestina, after which she became a suspect in a criminal case for participating in protests. She left the Republic of Belarus.

According to the prosecution , Daneiko joined the Coordination Council in August 2020 and "as its member, took active steps to achieve the goals of the unconstitutional seizure of state power." "According to the case materials, the accused, with the direct participation of the enterprise's employees, developed and carried out a scheme of illegal activity, in which he used the business entity as a tool to avoid the licensing procedure. The amount of income obtained through criminal means exceeded 200 thousand rubles."

In 2020, Daneiko was a member of the Coordination Council, and in September 2021, he was attacked by pro-government media for his ties to democratic forces. The economist later left the country, first living in Kiev and now in Vilnius. He works as the administrative director of the BEROC Economic Research Center.

In Belarus, he was also known as a business lecturer, a member of the supervisory boards of the companies Milavitsa, Farmland and Gomselmash. He was a member of various authoritative business organizations, including the public advisory council for the development of entrepreneurship under the Ministry of Economy of Belarus.

Vladimir Arkadyevich Astapenko served as Belarus' Ambassador to Argentina until 2020. He resigned on the day of Alexander Lukashenko's inauguration, September 23, 2020, stating that he believed "in a better future for the Belarusian people." Soon after, Lukashenko signed a decree dismissing Astapenko and stripping him of his diplomatic rank "due to committing an offense incompatible with serving in the diplomatic service." Ostapenko did not agree with this wording of the reason for his dismissal and tried to change it through the court, but to no avail. Vladimir was forced to leave Belarus.

He then joined Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's team and now works in the United Transitional Cabinet. Special proceedings were initiated against the former ambassador on December 21, 2022.

Pavel Mikhailovich Marinich is the head of Malanka Media. The special proceedings were initiated by the Investigative Committee in agreement with the Prosecutor General of Belarus on December 27, 2023, and on February 22 the case was transferred to court. Pavel Liber, Alexander Dobrovolsky, and Alena Zhivoglod were convicted in this case.

Head of the "Honest People" initiative. The special proceedings were initiated by the Investigative Committee in agreement with the Prosecutor General of Belarus on December 27, 2023, and on February 22 the case was transferred to court. Pavel Marinich, Pavel Liber, and Alexander Dobrovolsky were convicted in this case.

In June 2025, the KGB updated the list of those involved in the "extremist formation" "Honest People" - they added Elena Zhilochkina (Zhivoglod), Zarina Sorokina, Timofey Malakhovsky, Oleg Davydchik. The start date of the second special production is 20.08.2025.

Pavel Ivanovich Liber created the voting platform "Voice". The special proceedings were initiated by the Investigative Committee in agreement with the Prosecutor General of Belarus on December 27, 2023, and on February 22 the case was transferred to court. Pavel Marinich, Alexander Dobrovolsky, and Alena Zhivoglod were convicted in this case.