According to the indictment , Fedor, “acting out of ideological hostility, using a mobile phone, with the intent to provide funds to a group of citizens united under the name “Honest People” and recognized as an extremist formation, transferred 52 rubles 88 kopecks to bank accounts, which is at the exchange rate OJSC "Sber Bank" at that time amounted to 20 dollars." For the same reasons, Fyodor Shvedov transferred 26 rubles 07 kopecks (USD 10 equivalent) to the organization “Belarusian Rada of Culture”. Fyodor transferred another 26 rubles 20 kopecks to the organization “BY_help”.
Fedor graduated from Grodno State University in 1998. Lives with his family in Oshmyany. He and his wife have three children - two adults and one minor. He was the star of the Belarusian “What? Where? When?” even before he got into the television version of the program.
3.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open prison correctional facility
Sergei was accused of writing several messages in the Telegram messenger. The meeting took place in the building of the Berezovsky Cooperative Industry Combine. After the trial, prosecutor Alexander Krutko gave the workers a lecture “and reminded them of responsibility for extremist crimes.”
Sergei is 58 years old, he comes from Ivanovo and lives in Bereza.
Before the trial he was under house arrest.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Vladimi reposted several publications on Odnoklassniki allegedly insulting Alexander Lukashenko, “acting with the aim of discrediting and causing damage to the authority of state power.” These were a video from the public “Belarus Political”, text and photos from the public “STOP LUKA”. He did not block access to the page.
He was released from custody in the courtroom.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
The man was accused of liking and reposting a publication on Odnoklassniki with text about Lukashenko, in which he was accused of committing a serious and especially serious crime. The court saw this as slander against the politician.
Before the trial, Alexander was under recognizance not to leave. He fully admitted his guilt.
Alexander Zakharchik has a secondary education and works as a driver.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility
At the trial, Tatyana was accused of the fact that in October 2021 , “through correspondence on the social network Facebook, she intentionally and illegally disseminated information about personal data constituting a personal secret of an investigator of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Mogilev District Executive Committee without his consent in connection with his official activities.” " As a result, an “unlimited circle of people” became familiar with the policeman’s personal data.
Presumably, before the trial, the woman was kept in Baranavichy pre-trial detention center No. 6: she herself lives in either the Lyakhovichi or Luninets districts, but in December 2023 she was tried twice in the Baranavichy court under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (the second time she was tried via Skype). This follows from the decisions of the Baranavichy court regarding Makarova. In those administrative cases, the woman was given 10 days of arrest, a fine of 20 basic (740 rubles) and her phone was confiscated.
2,5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
He was detained by a traffic police officer on November 18, 2023, while riding a bicycle (according to a traffic police officer, while intoxicated) and taken to the Pruzhanskaya Central District Hospital, where he insulted Lukashenko. Before the trial he was under recognizance not to leave.
2 years of restriction of freedom with direction
Sergei and his wife were detained in November 2023. Before the trial, Sergei was in custody, and Tatyana was under recognizance, since the family had two minor children.
According to the prosecution , in August 2020, Sergei and Tatyana took part in an unauthorized mass event, together with the protesters they marched through public places in the city, the central square, and Zhilibert Park. At the same time, they showed a pre-made poster measuring approximately 2.5 x 3 meters, on which a text containing slanderous information against the president was written in black and red colors, thereby deliberately spreading slanderous information against him in connection with his execution powers of the head of state.
The accused Sergei Chizh fully admitted his guilt at the court hearing. He explained that the poster was heavy, and it was soon rolled up, and after the procession, Sergei burned it.
Tatyana Chizh did not admit guilt to the charges, explaining that she was depressed due to the serious illness of her mother, who is disabled.
They were identified from photographs from the Internet.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
As follows from the published verdict , Maxim Gurinovich was accused of writing an offensive comment on the Odnoklassniki social network in the group “Belsat TV Channel” under the news about the verdict of a single mother. The news said that a single mother allegedly insulted policeman R. Kutsko with an “offensive symbol” and for this she was sentenced to 2 years of “domestic chemicals.” Gurinovich’s own comment was also about this same Kutsko, and the news was accompanied by a photograph of “police officers in uniform.”
For his moral suffering from Gurinovich’s comment, policeman Kutsko asked for 2 thousand rubles in moral compensation. Maxim paid 400 rubles of this before the trial, so he filed a lawsuit for the remaining 1,600 rubles. The judge granted this claim: Gurinovich will have to pay Kutsko another 1,600 rubles in moral compensation, and also pay a fine of 50 b.v. (2000 rubles). Maxim’s phone was confiscated to the state “as a means of committing a crime.”
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
According to information published in the pro-government video, Alexander Malikov, in December 2021, left an offensive comment on one of the social networks addressed to the commander of a military unit based in the Lida region. The defendant’s last posts on social networks date back to October 2023. Presumably, that's when he was detained.
He did not admit his guilt in court, explaining that he did not intend to insult the serviceman.
On March 19, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
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.
Mashuta did not admit guilt at the court hearing. He said that he came to Sovetskaya Square in Grodno to go to one of the shops. There I saw a large number of people who had white-red-white and red-green paraphernalia with them. He decided that this was an event in support of Alexander Lukashenko, joined the crowd and took part in the street procession. From the case materials it became known that a photograph of Nikita Mashuta with the national flag on the roadway to Yanka Kupala Avenue was found in one of the telegram channels. His guilt is also confirmed by a video recording of a massive street procession with white-red-white symbols,
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
A resident of the village of Novy Sverzhen was accused of writing a comment in the direction of Lukashenko under a publication in a telegram channel, which the court considered offensive, while at work in the cabin of a commuter train.
During the trial, a witness, an assistant driver, was interviewed, who said that Denis Nosov did not inform him about the written comment.
After the verdict was announced, the man was released in the courtroom. His phone was confiscated “as a means of committing a crime.”
Denis has a secondary specialized education and works as an electric train driver for regional lines in Minsk.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
The man was accused of leaving a comment on YouTube in the direction of Lukashenko under the video “Belarus: Covert mobilization and deployment of troops from Russia | Ukraine, Lukashenko and NATO” by Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov. They found the Youtube application on his phone, in which there was a corresponding post in the “Comments” section.
Igor Zhuk worked as a woodworking machine operator in a closed joint stock company. He remained in custody until sentencing.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
According to the prosecution , Vladislav Muravsky repeatedly publicly insulted government officials in telegram channels and chats (“Punisher of Belarus”, “Chat-Partizan”, “my country Belarus”), and also disclosed their personal data.
The accused Vladislav, interrogated at the court hearing, pleaded not guilty, citing that he did not remember anything about his testimony and comments posted on the Internet in connection with his mental illness in the form of mixed personality disorder, after which he refused to give any explanations. His mother said in court that her son has a mental illness - mixed personality disorder. However, the expert's opinion refutes the presence of the influence of mental illness on the ability to remember events and information.
4 years of restriction of freedom with placement in an open institution.
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