Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka

Vadim Bogdanov worked as a taxi driver in Russia for a time. However, according to job postings , he later switched to IT and began working as a software tester. In 2024, he moved to Poland. The last reports of him in Poland date back to the second half of 2025.

He was detained at the end of last year upon returning from abroad and placed in pre-trial detention.

He was arrested in Moscow in March 2026 and extradited to Belarus. According to preliminary information , he may be charged with organizing illegal migration .

He was arrested in late August-early September 2024 before the elections. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment under Article 203 of the Criminal Code for possession of an electronic reference book.

Mikhail graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts and the Academy of Management. He worked at the city executive committee as a cybersecurity engineer. After 2020, he was either fired or resigned.

Initially held in pre-trial detention center No. 7, on August 13, 2025, he arrived at correctional colony No. 22.

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.

Former head of Intex-Press. Intex-Press was the largest and most successful independent regional media outlet in Belarus, but the authorities crushed it in 2021.

After the authorities liquidated the largest regional publication, Intex-Press, in 2023, Yanukevich and Pokolenko created the regional news portal bar24.by. In December 2024, bar24.by's editorial office and employees' apartments were searched, and some employees were detained.

Yanukevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison and a fine of 135,000 rubles (approximately 40,000 euros), while Pokolenko was sentenced to 12 years in prison and a fine of 45,000 rubles (approximately 13,000 euros). According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ ), "there is information about a huge total fine of approximately 200,000 rubles (approximately 60,000 euros)."

The nature of the charges is unknown.

Volodymyr Yanukevich, 65, served as director and editor-in-chief of the independent regional newspaper Intex-Press. Andriy Pokolenko, 44, served as deputy development director for the same media outlet. After the newspaper's closure, they created the news website BAR24. The website went down in January 2025.

Vladimir Yanukovych has previously been persecuted . He was twice tried and fined under the Code of Administrative Offenses for publishing an interview with Tikhanovskaya, and in February 2023, security forces raided the premises of Intex-Press Publishing House.

In addition to the imprisonment and a large fine, as reported by the Belarusian Association of Journalists, “there is information about a huge total fine of approximately 200,000 rubles (approximately 60,000 euros).”

Employees of the Baranovichi media outlet BAR24 were detained in December 2024. Law enforcement officers searched their homes and the city portal's editorial office, seizing equipment. Several were released, while the rest faced criminal charges.

Teacher of English and German.

A craftsman from Baranovichi, Sergei was arrested in February 2025. He was initially sentenced to 24 hours in jail under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, then charged under Article 188 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.