Ivan Leonidovich Ignatenko

Andrey is originally from Dokshitsy. After school in 2006, he entered the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, studied at the Faculty of Computer Systems and Networks. He is registered in Kopishche. During his studies, Andrey began working at EPAM. According to Linkedin, he recently worked as a Lead Software Engineer — he managed part of the development team on the project. It is unknown whether he recently lived in Belarus or not, but he traveled a lot.

Evgeniy was arrested in December 2024 and sentenced to imprisonment in June 2025.

Andrey was sentenced to one day in prison twice in a row (12/18 and 12/31/2024) under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity. After that, a criminal case was opened against him and he was transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.

Artem has worked in this field all his life - as a veterinarian, a teacher at the Smilovichi State Agricultural College, a technician. He is also the director of the veterinary company "Khimvet".

Artem's last comments date back to May 2024, after which he disappeared from social media. That's probably when he was detained .

It seems that the issue is in his social media posts and comments on Telegram - the accounts are called by his own name, and the Telegram account is linked to Artem's own phone.

Musician. Worked in a puppet theater in Brest.

He was first convicted in the Brest Regional Court on December 19, 2024.

In October 2025, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Yegor and he had been transferred to a pretrial detention facility.

Armen Arzumanyan is 44 years old. He is originally from Azerbaijan, but has lived in Belarus almost all his life and has Belarusian citizenship. Armen participated in the show "X-factor" first in 2018 in Ukraine, and then in 2021 in Belarus. But his main occupation is the gift business. For over 15 years, Armen has been running gift shops, the latest of which is Podari Minsk. In his free time, he saves homeless animals.

He is accused of “calling for sanctions” and “slandering Lukashenko.”

The 59-year-old coach was detained in June 2024. He was initially tried on an administrative charge for “disobeying police officers,” and then a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Those who took part in military operations in Ukraine can be tried under this part of the article, but usually those who only intended to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine are tried .

Entrepreneur. His business is JSC Anastan, a large company engaged in the production of polystyrene foam.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Gennady testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers calling for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

Andrei Loboda is 54 years old. He is a resident of Minsk and graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (then the Minsk Radiotechnical Institute) in 1993. Since then, he has worked in the banking sector.

Andrey was detained in April 2024. On April 12, he was sentenced to administrative arrest for "dissemination of extremist materials." After that, a criminal case was opened against him. In the GUBOPiK video, he says that he made a donation to the "Country for Life" foundation and wrote comments.

Dmitry was arrested on November 27, and then on December 11, 2023, and convicted under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity). Judges - Podolyanets Artem and Nikolai Kmita.

He was held in the temporary detention facility of the Baranovichi City Department of Internal Affairs. Afterwards, a criminal case was opened and he was transferred to the pretrial detention facility No. 7 in Brest. Oksana Viktorovna Molochko was convicted along with him.

Before his arrest, he was engaged in handicrafts and was self-employed.