All persecuted

Vladimir was born in Moscow and is a Russian citizen. In the mid-2000s, he moved to Belarus and settled in Zhlobin.

Afterwards, he worked in Poland for several years. He later returned to Belarus and moved to the agro-town of Shchitkovichi in the Starodorozhsky District of the Minsk Region.

Vladimir is known to have pro-Ukrainian views. It appears he was detained for his pro-Ukrainian comments.

In 2005, Sergei founded Promsnab LLC in Smolensk, Russia. The company purchased various metal products in Belarus and then resold them to Russian companies. In mid-May 2024, Promsnab's transport was unexpectedly detained in Belarus. The Borisov Interdistrict Department of the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee opened a criminal case against Sergei Poko under Part 3 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code (tax evasion). The owner of this profitable business was sent to pretrial detention.

Since Sergei owned a property in his native Zhodino, the Financial Investigation Department considered it an unregistered "permanent establishment" of a Russian company in Belarus. Based on this fact, investigators included the company's entire revenue for 13 years in the Belarusian tax base. In October 2024, auditors issued a colossal bill: over 2.8 million Belarusian rubles in additional charges and penalties. The company's lawyers cited a 1995 intergovernmental agreement on the avoidance of double taxation, as the property was used exclusively for procurement and could not legally be considered a representative office.

In November 2024, investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee for the Smolensk Region, together with the Belarusian Financial Investigation Department, conducted a search of Promsnab's office. The company's assets were seized.

Following the lawyers' publications in January 2025, nothing was heard about the businessman's fate for almost a year and a half. Only on July 6, 2026, did his name resurface in the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated lists.

There is no information whether Poko compensated the damages, and therefore the article was dropped, or the charges were simply reclassified, or whether the tax charges were tried separately.

However, Sergei Poko was convicted under a whole host of political offenses. The final verdict included charges of "inciting hatred" (Part 1 of Article 130), "calls for actions detrimental to national security" (Part 3 of Article 361), and participation in protests (Part 1 of Article 342). A charge of large-scale bribery was also added (Part 3 of Article 431 of the Criminal Code).

The minimum sentence for corruption charges alone is five years in prison, but given the political implications, the sentence could be much longer. Sergei Poko has been recognized as a political prisoner.

Oksana Volvacheva was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, but has lived in Belarus for over 30 years.

Since the beginning of 2019, the woman has been registered as an individual entrepreneur, and her main activity was the retail sale of sausages and ham in specialized stores in Minsk. Her business is currently in the process of being liquidated.

Oksana is an active civic activist and has frequently participated in political Telegram chats, especially after the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022. Publicly available data indicates that security forces persecuted her specifically for her online comments. The Minsk resident was first detained in January 2024 for these comments.

According to Belpol , Alexander had been in business for over 20 years. From the 1990s to 2008, he was deputy director of Litsvin LLC, which was involved in retail trade. From there, he moved to Expotechprom LLC and PromPoisk LLC, which specialized in wholesale trade of non-food products.

In October 2018, Alexander registered as a sole proprietor. He chose computer programming as his primary activity. This was a rare and inspiring achievement—Kotlyanik was 65 years old at the time.

In life, Alexander used the Belarusian language—at least when communicating online and when ordering from online stores.

She was convicted in the case of the "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" movement. On May 29, 2026, Galina was added to the "list of extremists." According to a decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on August 15, 2025, the religious sect "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" was designated an "extremist organization."

The "list of extremists" includes Anna Stryukova from the village of Ulazy in the Grodno region, Galina Frolova from the village of Kaiki in the Vitebsk region, Olga Boykovskaya from Svisloch, and Olga Vashchenko from Vileyka. The basis for the list is the Minsk City Court's verdict under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code and Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code—"incitement of hatred" and participation in or leadership of an "extremist group."

The movement's participants were accused of leading the movement's structures and disseminating ideas that investigators interpreted as religious and national hatred.

The prosecutor's office announced the sentences: Stryukova, Frolova, and Baikovskaya received five years and three months in prison, and Voshchenko received five years in prison. In May 2026, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence.

She was convicted in the case of the "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" movement. On May 29, 2026, Galina was added to the "list of extremists." According to a decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on August 15, 2025, the religious sect "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" was designated an "extremist organization."

The "list of extremists" includes Anna Stryukova from the village of Ulazy in the Grodno region, Galina Frolova from the village of Kaiki in the Vitebsk region, Olga Boykovskaya from Svisloch, and Olga Vashchenko from Vileyka. The basis for the list is the Minsk City Court's verdict under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code and Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code—"incitement of hatred" and participation in or leadership of an "extremist group."

According to the documents of the movement itself, Anna Stryukova appeared as "Abbess of all White Rus' (Belarus) Evdokia", and Galina Frolova as "nun Feodosia".

The movement's participants were accused of leading the movement's structures and disseminating ideas that investigators interpreted as religious and national hatred.

The prosecutor's office announced the sentences: Stryukova, Frolova, and Baikovskaya received five years and three months in prison, and Voshchenko received five years in prison. In May 2026, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence.

She was convicted in the case of the "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" movement. On May 29, 2026, Galina was added to the "list of extremists." According to a decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on August 15, 2025, the religious sect "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" was designated an "extremist organization."

The "list of extremists" includes Anna Stryukova from the village of Ulazy in the Grodno region, Galina Frolova from the village of Kaiki in the Vitebsk region, Olga Boykovskaya from Svisloch, and Olga Vashchenko from Vileyka. The basis for the list is the Minsk City Court's verdict under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code and Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code—"incitement of hatred" and participation in or leadership of an "extremist group."

According to the documents of the movement itself, Anna Stryukova appeared as "Abbess of all White Rus' (Belarus) Evdokia", and Galina Frolova as "nun Feodosia".

The movement's participants were accused of leading the movement's structures and disseminating ideas that investigators interpreted as religious and national hatred.

The prosecutor's office announced the sentences: Stryukova, Frolova, and Baikovskaya received five years and three months in prison, and Voshchenko received five years in prison. In May 2026, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence.

She was convicted in the case of the "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" movement. On May 29, 2026, Galina was added to the "list of extremists." According to a decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on August 15, 2025, the religious sect "Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire" was designated an "extremist organization."

The "list of extremists" includes Anna Stryukova from the village of Ulazy in the Grodno region, Galina Frolova from the village of Kaiki in the Vitebsk region, Olga Boykovskaya from Svisloch, and Olga Vashchenko from Vileyka. The basis for the list is the Minsk City Court's verdict under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code and Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code—"incitement of hatred" and participation in or leadership of an "extremist group."

According to the documents of the movement itself, Anna Stryukova appeared as "Abbess of all White Rus' (Belarus) Evdokia", and Galina Frolova as "nun Feodosia".

The movement's participants were accused of leading the movement's structures and disseminating ideas that investigators interpreted as religious and national hatred.

The prosecutor's office announced the sentences: Stryukova, Frolova, and Baikovskaya received five years and three months in prison, and Voshchenko received five years in prison. In May 2026, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence.

Alexander Rudchik was born in Skovorodino, a town in the Amur region of Russia, near the Chinese border. He graduated from the Military Finance and Economics Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense in 1985 and subsequently served as a lieutenant in Tynda, Amur region.

According to BelPol, the man lived in Belarus for many years and worked as an auditor as a sole proprietor since 2003. He closed his business at the end of 2019.

Alexander did not hide his anti-Putin and anti-Lukashenko views on social media.

Since 2022, the man has lived outside of Belarus. As early as the spring of 2025, he was posting photos from Poland. But later, for unknown reasons, Rudchik ended up in Belarus.

A Russian citizen, he lived in Belarus for a long time. In 2014, he received a degree in electrical power supply from the Belarusian National Technical University's Faculty of Power Engineering.

Prior to his arrest, he most recently worked at MITSO University. According to official procurement documents, he was responsible for plumbing, ventilation, and electrical work during a major renovation of one of the academic buildings.

In the 1990s, he was the Belarusian vice-champion in motorsport and worked as a coach for a long time. He later became fascinated with the sea and switched to windsurfing and yachting.

In 2013, Ochkas bought an old yacht in Poland, restored it himself, and named it "Fortuna." Since then, he began offering vacation services on the Minsk Sea, striving to create a high-quality and beautiful water-based service in Belarus, although he acknowledged that it would be impossible to develop a full-fledged business out of it in our latitudes. His brand was called yachts.by.

Yuriy holds pro-Ukrainian views. "I believe everything will be Ukraine!" he wrote in one Facebook post.

Yuri's last social media post was dated August 30, 2025 , when he published a recording from the Masurian Lake District in Poland. He was likely detained shortly thereafter while returning to Belarus.

He was tried in the Minsk City Court under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code. This is most likely related to pro-Ukrainian posts on social media.

Yuri was sentenced to a penal colony.