unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Artem was detained at the end of December 2023. According to preliminary data, the man was initially detained on an administrative matter. Then a search was carried out at his home, equipment was confiscated, and Artyom Antonov himself was charged with “insulting Alexander Lukashenko” (Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The details of the case are unknown.
Artem is the son of Sergei Antonov, a Belarusian journalist. Sergei is a personal correspondent for the Belarusian newspaper “Private Detective”. Author of a number of works within the Metro 2033 Universe. In early December, Sergei was summoned by the KGB chief for Bykhov, and he presented two documents from the Mogilev KGB, which stated the writer’s alleged involvement in a crime - working for the mogilev portal. media. After this, Sergei was forced to emigrate.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Pavel Kuntsevich is 39 years old. He is a Minsk resident, he studied at the Minsk State Institute of Ecology named after Sakharov as a psychologist. He worked at the Chervensky market, where he had his own retail outlet, and recently he made greenhouses for money.
Judging by social networks, he was detained in the fall of 2023. He was accused under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of Belarus - “calls for sanctions or other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.” Under the article, he faced up to 12 years in prison.
Pavel has a large family - a wife and four children.
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Galina Krasnyanskaya is 67 years old. She comes from Bobruisk, probably from the family of a military serviceman; on social networks it is indicated that she was born in the “military town of Kiselevichy”. Once there was a large military garrison there and the school was created just for military children. After school she went to Minsk to study as a chemist at the Belarusian Technological Institute (now BSTU). But after that, Galina worked in military units, according to her social networks. For example, from 1981 to 1986 in unit No. 48819, based in the pro-Soviet part of Germany-GDR.
She probably subsequently moved to Sweden. She must also have Swedish citizenship.
It is unknown when the woman returned to Belarus, but not earlier than the spring of 2023. The date of detention is also unknown. The article under which Galina is accused most often means a donation to Belarusian volunteers or to help Ukraine.
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Cook, resident of Novobelitsa.
There are quite a lot of posts and messages about Belarusian security forces and government officials on Igor’s social networks. He was also among the 500 subscribers in 2019 to an appeal to then-Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, which concerned the reburial of the remains of the rebels of 1863-1864 hanged by the tsarist authorities.
It is unknown what punishment the man was given. But it is associated with imprisonment.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
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On the night of October 13-14, 2023, in the center of the pine forest, the official red-green flag was removed from the flagpole and thrown into the ballot box, and the flag of Ukraine was attached in its place. The person who did this was detained based on the recording of a video surveillance camera installed on the village council building. Valery Samsonenko previously worked in the Svetlogorsk regional department for emergency situations, but left there.
On April 5, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
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A former “Afghan” and a person with a principled civic position, and his wife Oksana Lisitsa is the director of the Vysochanskaya Basic School and a deputy of the district council of the 28th convocation. Vladimir Lisitsa was born in Ukraine and instead of an avatar on his Odnoklassniki page there is a Ukrainian flag. The contents of this page, which has now been mostly deleted, were studied by the Liozny District Prosecutor's Office, and it decided that “information products on the personal page “Vladimir Lisitsa” on the social network “Odnoklassniki” contains signs of activities aimed at facilitating extremist activities, training or other preparation to participate in such activities.” According to the investigation , Vladimir Lisitsa left comments about several other well-known persons in Belarus: “publicly obscene comments were made to the military commissar of the Gomel region A.V. Krivonosov, deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus A.S. Gaidukevich, chairman of the Glubokoe district executive committee A . N. Shubsky and A. G. Lukashenko."According to the court verdict, Mr. Lisitsa must serve three years in a correctional colony under general regime conditions, and also pay a fine of 7,400 rubles and compensation for moral school to two plaintiffs - the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus A. The Swede and the deputy of the Novopolotsk City Council of Deputies I. Medvedsky - 3,000 rubles each.
3 years of imprisonment in a correctional colony under general regime conditions
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According to his page on the social network Vkontakte, Zykun graduated from BSMU (Minsk Medical University) in 2016. Lives and works in Brest as a urologist at a regional hospital. In the winter of 2023, he was detained for donations. The “authorities” obliged to pay financial assistance to the orphanage in multiple amounts. After this, the doctor was under the close attention of security forces. The administration put pressure on him in every possible way through the deputy chief physician for ideology.
According to the prosecution , Oleg Zykun deliberately and illegally distributed personal data of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The personal data itself was presumably taken from the Telegram channel “Nexta” (because similar information was posted there). And then he “distributed” them on the local network at work, which was discovered in the summer of 2023. By the summer of 2023, Zykun himself had no idea that in his folder on the local work network there was a file with the names and telephone numbers of Ministry of Internal Affairs employees. But this list was found as part of an administrative case in July 2023 during an inspection of the man’s equipment.
At the trial, Zykun admitted his actions. But he did not admit the intent to disseminate data from employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (which the state prosecution insists on).
1.5 years of restriction of freedom in a colony under general regime conditions.
According to the indictment, on September 8, 2023, Vladimir Lukyanchuk wrote an offensive comment in the “Bearded Man’s Chat” telegram chat. In the message, Alexander Grigorievich was called a word that means “balabol” (but in an obscene form).
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
It follows from the verdict that in 2021, on September 18 at 15:07, the man wrote a comment in the telegram chat “Chat Elehtarata”. There he “negatively assessed” A. Lukashenko. There was also an investigation against Kronda under another popular political article - Article 370 of the Criminal Code (Desecration of state symbols) - but that case was dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
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It is unknown when the man was detained, but the last time he was online was on his VKontakte page on December 29, 2022, although he used to visit there regularly.
It is known that in 2015 the man lived in Poland. And in 2019 and 2021 he wrote that he lives in Germany, works in artificial intelligence and works for the German company EDEKA GmbH/WITRON. His main messengers were tied to a German number, and his mailbox was on a German domain, that is, he lived permanently in Germany.
According to CyberPartisan, Novogrodsky has not officially worked in Belarus since 2011 and has three children from different women.
As Nasha Niva writes, Alexey is interested in philosophy and participated in thematic conferences - for example, in April 2021, he made a report “Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence” at the scientific conference “Philosophy and Challenges of Modernity,” which was organized by the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The press service said that in March-April 2022, the convict posted messages in an “extremist” chat aimed at “exacerbating tension in society and destabilizing the situation in the Republic of Belarus.” He also wrote “negative messages and comments discrediting the Republic of Belarus” and insulting officials and Lukashenko.
Herman partially admitted his guilt at the trial.
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According to the prosecution , in March 2021, through the Internet and the PayPal payment system, Filippovich allegedly “transferred funds in the amount of 29.35 euros to a bank account used by BYPOL representatives to support extremist activities.”
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
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