Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev

Since 2018, he has been working as a sole proprietor, running his own small lumber business and making custom cabinets. He also worked part-time as a taxi driver in Minsk.

In the local chat, Ilya regularly reported broken traffic lights and downed road signs, offered ideas for improving traffic, and asked for traffic controllers to be stationed at problematic intersections.

Yevgeny was arrested in July 2025 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "assistance to extremist activity" after Belarusian security forces gained access to the chats of a bot belonging to the monitoring project "Belaruski Gayun," where people were sending information about Russian troop movements.

In March 2026, Evgeniy was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

A Lithuanian citizen, he traveled to Belarus to visit relatives in the fall of 2024 and was detained.

The exact articles under which the charges were brought are being clarified.

Miroslavas was sentenced to a long prison term in the spring of 2026.

Dmitry Lugovich led a busy and varied life: he traveled and attended concerts. He was apparently arrested last summer, when his last social media posts were recorded.

Gleb is from Grodno. He is known to have lived in Russia for a long time. He worked at Lesta OJSC since at least January 2020. This is the Russian division of Wargaming, a company that develops computer games, most famously World of Tanks.

Rybchenko is on the leaked Central Bank of Russia blacklist. The reason was a money transfer request denial with the explanation "the transaction is being carried out for the purpose of financing terrorism." It appears he attempted to donate to Polk Kalinovsky using a Russian card. This occurred in March 2022.

Gleb is also listed in the Russian "opposition" database, which was created by Russian security forces to more easily monitor those who disagree with the war and activists. It was leaked online.

Andrey Yankovich is originally from Rechitsa. He graduated from the Sukhoi Gomel State Technical University in 2008. He lives in Gomel. Until recently, he worked at ISsoft, a company that develops digital engineering software.

There is a high probability that the persecution of Andrei Yankovich is connected with the case of the monitoring channel "Belarusian Gayun".

Head of the event agency "Terra Group".

The Investigative Committee has released details of a criminal case against two people: 42-year-old political prisoner Andrei Yaroshevich and his 36-year-old business partner.

According to security officials, Yaroshevich allegedly collected information about Novopolotsk Colony No. 1, including the personal data of its employees and the conditions of inmates' detention. According to the Investigative Committee, all of this was done for Belpol.

Furthermore, Yaroshevich and his business partner allegedly used their company to finance the "extremist groups" Terra Group Event and SSL Production. Anatoly Kotov worked for the Warsaw-based Terra Group before his mysterious disappearance.

Sergei Timoshenko fought in Afghanistan from 1986 to 1988. He served in the 2nd Airborne Assault Outpost of the Kerki Airborne Assault Maneuverable Group, commanding the combat group.

Sergei, judging by his social media posts, supports Ukraine in its war against Russia. This appears to be the reason for the charges. He suddenly disappeared from all social media at the end of 2024, was arrested, and placed in pretrial detention.

He worked as a taxi driver. He is a father of many children, with six children from two marriages.

He was detained in connection with a terrorism case. He was severely beaten during interrogation (Viktor even had his arm broken). According to the KGB, Viktor Yaskich and Yevhen Gruk were convicted under Article 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism) and Article 295 of the Criminal Code (illegal actions involving firearms, ammunition, and explosives). Their arrest became known in early April 2024 from a report on ONT. According to the propagandists, security forces detained at least 12 people, including Gruk and Yaskich, accused of smuggling explosives and planning terrorist attacks. According to the reporter, Gruk was an informant for the SBU: he photographed military equipment and transmitted its coordinates. Gruk was then ordered to retrieve the explosives from a hiding place. Yaskich gave Gruk a ride to the hiding place. Subsequently, the two were supposed to distribute the explosives from the hiding place to new hiding places. The report does not explain the rationale behind this action.

The trial took place in May 2025. The verdict is unknown; Viktor was held in pretrial detention before the trial.

Oleg Loiko, an evangelical pastor from the Khoyniki district, is accused of transmitting information about the movement of Russian military equipment through Belarus.

48-year-old Oleg Loiko is the pastor of an evangelical Christian church in the village of Nebytov in the Khoyniki District. Last December, he was arrested for 10 days for "spreading extremism."

The pastor spent many years rehabilitating people with drug addictions through the "Return" mission. Thanks to his work, hundreds of people have returned to normal lives. He has previously received numerous glowing reviews from state media.

A church minister was sentenced to three and a half years in a maximum-security prison for providing information about the movement of Russian military equipment to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring project. The trial was held behind closed doors.

Pastor Oleg does not admit that he committed crimes and considers his conscience clear before God.

He was re-sentenced in October 2025.

In the colony, Oleg's heart condition worsened, and intervertebral hernias made it very difficult for him to walk.

A 40-year-old programmer from Mogilev. In 2013, he graduated from the Belarusian-Russian University, studying to be an engineer. He specializes in working with the Magento platform, which is used to create online stores and organize online trading. He has a young daughter and a wife.

Igor Goltsov transferred about $50 to the Zerkalo YouTube channel via Patreon. This happened in 2023.

In December 2024, Roman Yemelyanov was already subjected to repression in an administrative politically motivated case. He was accused of violating the procedure for organizing and holding mass events under Part 1 of Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. At the same time, there have been no mass events in Chechersk in recent years, except for those organized by the authorities. This persecution was probably for some posts on social networks, which the punitive structures of the ruling regime interpret as pickets, since people express some opinions through them.

After this, a criminal case was opened against Roman.