Valentina Nikolaevna Zenkevich
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Valentina Nikolaevna Zenkevich
Involved in the adoption of politically motivated court decisions, at least 34 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 68 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed.
She handed down sentences of 12 years in prison to the editor-in-chief and general director of TUT.BY Marina Zolotova and Lyudmila Chekina.
In a closed trial, 54-year-old Minsk resident Igor Popov was sentenced to indefinite compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital with strict supervision for comments on the Internet.
She sentenced political prisoner Vitaly Grigol to a year and seven months in prison in the Zeltser case.
Involved in the adoption of politically motivated court decisions, at least 34 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 68 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed.
She handed down sentences of 12 years in prison to the editor-in-chief and general director of TUT.BY Marina Zolotova and Lyudmila Chekina.
In a closed trial, 54-year-old Minsk resident Igor Popov was sentenced to indefinite compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital with strict supervision for comments on the Internet.
She sentenced political prisoner Vitaly Grigol to a year and seven months in prison in the Zeltser case.
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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.
was detained as part of a criminal case that the KGB opened on the fact of an “attempt to commit an act of terrorism” in Machulishchi.
The main defendant in the case and, as the official bodies and propagandists claimed, the perpetrator of the sabotage, Nikolai Shvets, was released in June in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine. But despite this, the case is still on trial and his accomplices in Belarus face long prison terms. Shvets himself is also being tried in absentia.
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According to pro-government media, he was convicted of sending the data of three of his former colleagues to one of the “extremist” Telegram channels.
On October 24, 2023, a court hearing was held on the subject of “the release of the convicted person from a sentence of imprisonment, the execution of which was suspended.”
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47 year old Oleg was born in Krasnoyarsk, but in 2000 he moved to Belarus and has already received citizenship.
In the film on the ONT TV channel, they showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 at Oleg's house in the «Berezovaya Roshcha» garden association in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).
Sychev with his wife Nastya Pilko was detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.
According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.
The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.
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Detained together with his wife in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi.
Human rights activists received information that on March 3, Maxim Lopatin was detained by employees of the State Security Committee in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi. The man is being held in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.
Lopatin was severely beaten during the arrest. A film was released on ONT, which tells about some high-profile detentions, including the mention of Maxim. Allegedly his friend is a psychotherapist Evgenia Tochinskaya, who lives in Poland, asked to bring a Ukrainian agent Shvets from Stolin to the Lagoy highway on February 27.
The video shows that the man has dentures on his jaw, which may mean that it was broken. After splinting, there should be a serious stage of rehabilitation with eating and drinking water through a tube.
On March 23, Maxim's wife, Lyudmila Lopatina, was also detained.
The couple has two juvenile children.
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It is known that Maria, Andrei Zeltser's widow, collected signatures for presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in 2020. However, she did not participate in the protests because she had a young son.
On September 28, 2021, Maria was detained in her own apartment during a shootout between her husband, Andrei Zeltser, and KGB officers.
That day, KGB officers were conducting searches and arresting people who had participated in the 2020 protests in Minsk. When security forces arrived at the Zeltser family's apartment, Andrei Zeltser refused to open the door to the law enforcement officers, who were dressed in civilian clothes and had no official insignia. He locked himself in the apartment with Maria, armed with a hunting rifle. Both were filming the events.
After the door was broken down, Zeltser opened fire with a hunting rifle at the KGB officers who had burst into the apartment. KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk was wounded and died in the hospital later that day. Andrei Zeltser was killed in return fire.
In May 2022, Maria's criminal case began. She was charged with the murder of a person in connection with their official duties, committed in a manner dangerous to society. The case was examined under a special procedure—as if the person had committed a socially dangerous act while in a state of insanity or had developed a mental disorder after committing the crime.
In June 2022, the court ordered Maria to undergo compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital until she recovered.
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He was the director of a Belarusian-American joint venture
"Double-glazed windows and architectural glass plant", and also the director of the Glass Engineering company in the Russian Federation.
The man has a wife and two children—an adult daughter and a minor son. His wife runs a business with him.
The date of Gritsel's arrest is unknown, but he last posted anything in Telegram chats in July 2024. He was arrested no later than fall 2024. The businessman was sentenced to either a penal colony with a referral or a prison sentence. However, since Roman hasn't appeared on social media or messaging apps since the trial, and has only been on Telegram for a "very long time," it can be assumed he was sentenced to a prison sentence.
Economist and Administrative Director of the BEROC Research Centre.
The case against Pavel Daneiko began on December 23, 2024, and special proceedings against him began on October 8. According to the prosecution, Daneiko joined the Coordination Council in August 2020 and "as its member, took active steps to achieve the goals of the unconstitutional seizure of state power."
According to the prosecution , Daneiko joined the Coordination Council in August 2020 and "as its member, took active steps to achieve the goals of the unconstitutional seizure of state power." "According to the case materials, the accused, with the direct participation of the enterprise's employees, developed and carried out a scheme of illegal activity, in which he used the business entity as a tool to avoid the licensing procedure. The amount of income obtained through criminal means exceeded 200 thousand rubles."
In 2020, Daneiko was a member of the Coordination Council, and in September 2021, he was attacked by pro-government media for his ties to democratic forces. The economist later left the country, first living in Kiev and now in Vilnius. He works as the administrative director of the BEROC Economic Research Center.
In Belarus, he was also known as a business lecturer, a member of the supervisory boards of the companies Milavitsa, Farmland and Gomselmash. He was a member of various authoritative business organizations, including the public advisory council for the development of entrepreneurship under the Ministry of Economy of Belarus.
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Former employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Human rights activists do not know what exactly the man is accused of.
According to Yan Karlionov 's social media , he is 37 years old. The Minsk resident graduated from BSU, is married, and has a 15-year-old daughter. Yan's last publications on social media were in 2020: Viktor Babariko's speech and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's message to the Belarusian people.
In November 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
On the morning of February 26, 2023, explosions occurred at the Machulishchi airfield near a Russian long-range reconnaissance aircraft DRLV A-50, it was blown up in two places. It was used to guide Russian missiles to targets in Ukraine. It was reported that the aircraft is currently undergoing repairs at the 325th aircraft repair plant, which is part of the Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex in Russia.
The main defendant in the case and, as official bodies and propagandists claimed , the perpetrator of the sabotage, Nikolai Shvets, was released in June in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine.
Nikolai Shvets, Alexander Azarov, Alla Yatsuta, Vitaly Yakutik, Evgenia Tochitskaya, Mikhail Demin and Sergei Loparov were tried in absentia.
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On the morning of February 26, 2023, in the vicinity of the military airfield of the 50th mixed base of the Belarusian Air Force in Machulishchi (Minsk region), local residents heard several explosions. According to BYPOL, they were the result of an attack by a drone of "Belarusian partisans" on a Russian military airborne early warning and control aircraft (AEW&C) A-50. On March 7, 2023, Lukashenko confirmed the information that the aircraft was in Russia, as well as the fact of the attack in Machulishchi. On the same day , the authorities reported that a Ukrainian citizen, Nikolai Shvets, was detained in this case, as alleged, and was named as the perpetrator of the sabotage. Later, state TV channels released an "investigation" about him. Before the sabotage, the man lived in Minsk for a month. At the end of June 2024, Minsk handed over Nikolai Shvets to Ukraine, who was accused of blowing up a military aircraft in the village of Machulishchi.