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Judge Evgeny Pisarevich heard the case from August 28 to September 4, 2024. Viktor will also be ordered to pay 1,000 rubles in compensation for moral damages to the Logoisk police officer.

On October 7, 2025, the verdict was announced in the second trial: taking into account the first trial - 6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security prison, a fine of 600 basic units, as well as compensation for moral damages to Chemodanova - 5,000 Belarusian rubles, Karpenkov - 2,000 Belarusian rubles, and Nikitenko - 5,000 Belarusian rubles.

Presumably , this is the former prosecutor of the Voronovo district. Prosecutor Savko is 33 years old. He is originally from the city of Dyatlovo in the Grodno region. After that, he went to study in Grodno and work in the prosecutor's office. In 2022-2023, the man held the position of prosecutor of the Voronovo district, then worked as a senior prosecutor in one of the departments of the prosecutor's office of the Grodno region. "Nasha Niva" did not find evidence that Savko was involved in repressions in his position. Vitaly actively gave interviews to state media. The last one was published in July 2023, although before that they were published regularly, once every one or two months. The man's social networks have been deleted.

Ruslan Zubkov is 26 years old. According to social networks, he has lived and worked in Poland in recent years.

In December 2023, Zubkov was added to the list of members of the extremist group "Russia is Evil". This is a small Telegram chat with 135 members, where only three people are currently active. In February 2024, Ruslan was put on the wanted list in Belarus and Russia - this means that at that time he was still at large.

It is also unknown when Ruslan was detained. He was first tried in June 2024 for "insulting Lukashenko" in the Kamenets District Court. The verdict is unknown.

Anatoly Volodko is 56 years old. He is a resident of Minsk. The man has a wife, an adult daughter and a son who will soon turn eighteen. Volodko worked as a programmer at Top Soft for over 20 years. It is engaged in the creation of the Galaxy product ecosystem, which is necessary for the digitalization of business. The company's central office is located in Russia, where Anatoly worked part of the time.

The exact date of the man's arrest is unknown, but it was probably January 15 or 16, 2024. After all, on January 17, he and his wife were convicted of "petty hooliganism" - he was sentenced to 15 days, while the sentence for his wife is unknown. According to the testimony of security officials, Anatoly Volodko "was in a public place and, out of hooligan motives, was shouting loudly, using obscene language, waving his arms and behaving aggressively." The man did not admit his guilt and said that he was detained in his own home in the middle of the day. He did not do any of the things that the witnesses said.
According to cellmate Anatoly Volodko, he refused to pay "donations" that KGB officers threatened to offer to those who made donations. In general, the man did not admit his guilt. Anatoly's cellmate claims that this served as the reason for further prosecution - administrative and criminal.

On August 27, 2024, Anatoly had his appeal heard and the verdict came into force.

He was detained in September 2023, allegedly for chatting with friends. A criminal case was opened.

He was detained in September 2023, allegedly for chatting with friends. A criminal case was opened.

The expected date of Andrey’s detention is September 20, 2023. On this day, a “repentance” video appeared, where a man says that he allegedly wrote negative comments about Lukashenko, officials, police officers, the Russian military, and also threatened people who support the current government.

44-year-old Andrei Burdenya was detained for comments in telegram chats, of which he left more than three hundred. Andrey studied at school No. 6, and then served in the army. It is known that now he is temporarily not working, but previously he worked for some time in the IT field, and even earlier he was engaged in the production of kitchen furniture and had his own individual entrepreneur

Details of the verdict became known from prosecutor Pleskatsevich’s comment to Pinsk state TV (the name of the accused is not named, but he is the only one who was tried in Pinsk in 2024 under the article “unrest”). The prosecutor recounted the position of the accused: on August 9, 2020, he voted at the polling station, returned home and drank a lot (about a bottle of vodka), after which “out of interest he went to look at the protesters near the city executive committee building.” What exactly the man did next at the protests, for what reasons, he did not remember due to alcohol (in his words). But the video captured what the prosecution qualified as follows: “he took an active part [in the riots], namely, with his actions he supported the pogrom and attacked the police with other protesters.”

On 01.08.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

The first time she was detained by the KGB at the end of January 2024 (during the mass detentions of relatives and friends of political prisoners) for writing letters and transferring money to the accounts of political prisoners in the pre-trial detention center of prison No. 1. Then a criminal case was opened against her under Art. 361-2 (financing extremist activities), but the woman was not taken into custody.

During the search, equipment and money were confiscated from her. After examining the technique, unwanted comments were allegedly discovered on social networks, and an examination was then carried out on them. After receiving the results of the examination, on April 20, 2024, Victoria was re-detained and placed in a temporary detention facility, and subsequently in a pre-trial detention center.

Accused of financing extremist and terrorist activities through donations to a protest initiative (Bysol).

Alexander is originally from Glusk, a small regional center in the Mogilev region. After finishing school, he entered the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, majoring in "Information Systems and Technologies in Logistics". After graduating, he went on to a master's degree.

Alexander worked in the IT field.

Neurologist. Badamshin was detained at least five times after the elections - reports were drawn up against him and he was arrested. Then he served a total of more than 60 days of administrative arrest.

The doctor was last detained on the morning of February 28. A criminal case was opened against him for photos from protests in 2020 in Minsk.

In June 2025, it became known that Ruslan had been detained again and was being held in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.

The pro-government film (April 2024) said that six teenagers allegedly united in the “anarchist cell “Black Nightingales”, which” under the leadership of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine “was created by 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen Maria Misyuk.

ONT employees claim that the teenagers united to carry out sabotage on a tip in Belarus, and then in Russia. Maria is accused under Part 2 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism). According to the story, 16-year-old Maria Misyuk moved with her family from Ukraine to Belarus in 2022, where she created an “anarchist cell for preparing terrorist attacks.” Among those detained are college students in Baranovichi, Nesvizh, Mir, Minsk and Luninets. These are Trofim Borisov, Sergei Zhigalev, Dmitry Zahoroshko, Anastasia Klimenko and Alexandra Pulinovich . According to ONT employees, young people gathered at the Baranovichi apartment to prepare for their first serious action - to collect explosives and blow up the Baranovichi police department or prosecutor's office. It is unknown under what charges the remaining five participants are accused. As well as their status and location are unknown.

The pro-government film (April 2024) said that six teenagers allegedly united in the “anarchist cell “Black Nightingales”, which” under the leadership of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine “was created by 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen Maria Misyuk.

ONT employees claim that the teenagers united to carry out sabotage on a tip in Belarus, and then in Russia. Maria is accused under Part 2 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism). According to the story, 16-year-old Maria Misyuk moved with her family from Ukraine to Belarus in 2022, where she created an “anarchist cell for preparing terrorist attacks.” Among those detained are college students in Baranovichi, Nesvizh, Mir, Minsk and Luninets. These are Trofim Borisov, Sergey Zhigalev, Dmitry Zahoroshko , Anastasia Klimenko and Alexandra Pulinovich. According to ONT employees, young people gathered at the Baranovichi apartment to prepare for their first serious action - to collect explosives and blow up the Baranovichi police department or prosecutor's office. It is unknown under what charges the remaining five participants are accused. As well as their status and location are unknown.

Sergei was arrested right at college during classes in late December 2023. A pro-government film (April 2024) reported that six teenagers allegedly united into an "anarchist cell called 'Black Nightingales,'" which was created "under the leadership of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine" by 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen Maria Misiuk.

ONT staff claim the teenagers united to carry out acts of sabotage, following a tip, in Belarus and then in Russia. Maria is charged under Part 2 of Article 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism). According to the report, 16-year-old Maria Misyuk moved with her family from Ukraine to Belarus in 2022, where she created an "anarchist cell to prepare terrorist attacks." Among those detained are college students in Baranovichi, Nesvizh, Mir, Minsk, and Luninets. They are Trofim Borisov, Sergey Zhigalyov , Dmitry Zakhoroshko, Anastasia Klimenko, and Alexandra Pulinovich. According to ONT staff, the young people gathered in a Baranovichi apartment to prepare for their first major action—to assemble explosives and blow up the Baranovichi police station or prosecutor's office. The charges against the remaining five participants are unknown, as are their statuses and locations.

After being transferred to the penal colony, Sergei was immediately placed in a punishment cell for a month.