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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Ales was sentenced twice for an administrative violation for a day, after which he was not released. Presumably, Sobolevsky could be transferred to a pre-trial detention center. It is unknown what the man is accused of.
Detained for financing extremist activities
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
A businessman detained in the fall of 2023 for calling for sanctions. A criminal case has been initiated against Yuri, he is taken into custody (the place of detention is being specified).
On the air of the pro-government TV channel "Belarus 1" Yuri Olkhovik is presented as "co-founder of the company - the official distributor of global manufacturers." He himself said that he was engaged in the supply of non-destructive testing and chemical analysis equipment, and testing equipment. He wrote a letter to the European company with a request to terminate cooperation with the Belarusian company included in the sanctions list.
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.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
He was detained along with his entire family (husband, daughter, son) on suspicion of “treason.” The daughter was apparently later released. The details of the case are unknown.
She worked as a nurse at Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 3. Larisa Prokhorova is a completely non-public person. She was born in 1975 in Grabovka, where she lived all her life.
He was detained along with his entire family (mother, father, sister) on suspicion of “treason.” The sister was apparently later released. Pavel is 27 years old. He was born in Grabovka. Worked in construction. The details of the case are unknown.
He was detained along with his entire family (wife, daughter, son) on suspicion of “treason.” The daughter was apparently later released. Vasily Prokhorov is 54 years old. He comes from the city of Chernobyl, which was home to the infamous nuclear power plant. It is known that he was injured in the Chernobyl accident. Prokhorov served in the airborne troops. Then he worked on construction sites and moonlighted as a cargo carrier, and also wrote a small blog.
The details of the case are unknown.
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.
5 years imprisonment in a colony
She was allegedly detained for donations.
Catherine's trial will begin on May 15, 2024. She is being tried under three articles of the Criminal Code. The minimum punishment is 4 years in prison.
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