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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.
former military man. He was the one named as the perpetrator of the attack on the OMON base. Pavel Kulazhenko is a former OMON fighter who is now fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. Both are associated with the "Supra" initiative, which the Lukashenko regime has declared terrorist.
Kulazhenko and Potekhina were charged under eight articles of the Criminal Code.
The property of Kulazhenko and Potehin, worth a total of approximately 240 thousand rubles, has been seized.
On December 23, 2024, the Minsk City Court issued a verdict in absentia. Judge Mikhail Makarevich sentenced them to 24 and 23 years in a maximum security prison colony, respectively, and a fine of 1,000 basic units (40,000 rubles) each. In addition, Potekhin was stripped of his military rank of "retired captain."
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Artem was arrested in February 2024 and convicted under the article on "financing the activities of an extremist group." He was held in a pretrial detention center before the trial.
He has two higher educations, worked as a programmer, was involved in photography and owned a company renting photo and video equipment.
It is currently known that he is being prosecuted again in connection with a new criminal case under the article “organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.”
Previously, Yury Makhnach was a PPS company commander in Lida. In August 2020, TUT.BY published his appeal. Yury Makhnach spoke about the beating of people in the Lida District Department of Internal Affairs, paddy wagons, and at a car wash in the department's service garage. Then, on August 18 , he resigned from service in the police .
On August 18, 2020, he resigned and later left Belarus for Poland due to the threat of persecution.
Diana left Belarus in the summer of 2023. She is the daughter of former political prisoner Andrei Ivanyushin, who was convicted for the September 19, 2020, incident near the Europa shopping center in the so-called biker case. Ivanyushin was then sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He served his entire term in the Shklov colony.
The girl does not hide the fact that she took part in protests in 2020. Fearing persecution, she left the country.
Diana was detained on September 2, 2024 in Armenia while crossing the Georgian-Armenian border, since the Belarusian side had previously declared her wanted, which the girl did not know about. Diana was later released.
Alexander is a Pinsk resident, he was accused of participating in a protest that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020 in Pinsk (at that time he was a minor). The arrest took place in the spring of 2024. He was released from the courtroom on September 5, 2024 before the verdict came into force.
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In 2020, Nadezhda and her husband took part in peaceful protests and supported Belarusian aid funds - "Country for Life" and BYSOL. She was detained under Article 342 of the Criminal Code and held in custody until trial.
Nadezhda is a believer of one of the Minsk evangelical churches and a mother of many children.