Alena Dzmitryyeuna Pyrkh

Tatyana graduated from the Minsk Radiotechnical Institute (now BSUIR ) and has an adult daughter and son. She enjoys spending time at her dacha , gardening , and hiking in the forest , and she travels throughout Belarus.

Tatyana was tried in the Minsk City Court under two articles of the Criminal Code: Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code (calls for sanctions and other actions aimed at causing harm to Belarus) and Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (assistance to extremist activity). Under these articles, she could only have been sentenced to a prison colony. The verdict came into force in early May.

In December 2024, pro-government media posted an audio recording of Olga, who is accused of participating in the "White Wings of Baranovichi" chat. When the KGB declared the "White Wings of Baranovichi" chat - a very small and long-inactive district chat - an extremist group, Olga was named among the participants. Olga was contacted through an unprotected account. It was linked to the girl's own number. Most likely, Olga was held in a pre-trial detention center before the trial.

Olga plays drums and was a drummer in amateur music groups as a student. She and her husband enjoy traveling.

Anna graduated from the Faculty of Mass Sports at the Belarusian State University of Physical Education in 2019. She worked as a coach and teacher at the Burevestnik Olympic Reserve School in Minsk.

In 2014, Anna competed in the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games, where she jumped 3.80 m and placed fourth overall. For this achievement, she received a scholarship from the National Olympic Committee.

She was likely detained in connection with the "Gayun case." On the "list of extremists" maintained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, her status is listed as "serving a sentence." This means she was sentenced to either a penal colony with a referral or a prison colony.

Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture. Artist. Direction – expressionism. Technique – impasto painting. Works are in private collections in America, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, and also in the Larus Gallery (USA). Three personal exhibitions. Member of the Union of Artists "Master-Peacemaker".

Presumably detained for assisting political prisoners.

Dmitry and Olga Kapuzy, 36, were detained on January 16, 2024. The couple hails from the Drogichin district and lived near the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Following their detention, state television aired a propaganda video titled "Purge. The Fight Against Saboteurs and Agents of Ukrainian Special Services in Belarus," accusing them of smuggling goods from Ukraine. A total of 12 people were detained at the time. According to the propaganda, the couple allegedly worked for Ukrainian special services. It was claimed that the residents of the Drogichin district assisted the Security Service of Ukraine by seizing explosives and making caches in Belarus.

Margarita, Tina Palynskaya's eldest daughter, was detained along with her mother at the end of May 2025. Both are in custody on criminal charges.

The details of the charges have not been officially disclosed. Based on circumstantial evidence, there is an assumption that the case may be connected with the KGB's decision to recognize the "Belarusian Analytical Workshop" of Professor Andrei Vardomatsky as an extremist organization. This organization conducted sociological surveys among Belarusian citizens. At the moment, there is no confirmation that Tina or her daughter actually participated in the BAM research. But even if such participation had taken place, it would not have violated the law: at the time of possible contact with the workshop, it had not yet been recognized as an extremist organization.

A journalist and Catholic believer from Polotsk, Tina had long since retired from journalism, raising two daughters and working in archives, including Russian ones, fulfilling private commissions for biographical essays, family books, and stories about World War II veterans.

Earlier, in 2022, the journalist was tried on administrative charges and heavily fined for wearing yellow and blue ribbons on her bag, while the Investigative Committee investigated her Facebook post and searched her home.

She has been out of contact since the end of May 2025. Tina and her eldest daughter, Margarita, 22, are in custody on criminal charges. Tina also has a younger daughter, 14, who is underage.

Details of the charges have not been officially disclosed. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the case may be connected to the KGB's decision to designate Professor Andrei Vardomatsky's Belarusian Analytical Workshop as an extremist group. This organization conducted sociological surveys among Belarusian citizens. There is currently no confirmation that Tina or her daughter actually participated in the BAM research. But even if such participation had occurred, it would not have violated the law: at the time of possible contact with the workshop, it had not yet been designated an extremist group.

On October 13, 2025, it became known that Tina’s husband, writer Ales Polynsky , had died .

When in June 2024 the KGB of Belarus declared the Media IQ project an extremist group, it named Pitkevich among its participants. Around the same time, Polina's accounts were last online.

Polina Pitkevich was born in 1994. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University (2016). She was fond of theater and for some time played as an actress in the Laboratory of Social Theater in Minsk. As a journalist, she wrote on cultural topics. Polina is also known for her love of animals - on her social media pages, you can find many ads about helping homeless tailed ones. According to friends, Polina had more than one rescued cat living in her house.

Mozyr activist and blogger Polina Zyl. Nasha Niva has learned that she was charged with participating in protests and belonging to an "extremist group." Her boyfriend, Maksim Shukanov, was arrested along with her. There has been no information about his release; he is likely also in pretrial detention.

After Zyl's arrest, security forces gained access to a bot used by informants from the Belarusian Gayun OSINT monitoring project. A fatal technical error lay in the fact that the link with access rights to Gayun's bot, which she had once received—apparently back in 2022—had no expiration date. It's unlikely that Zyl knew this, and it's unlikely that Motoľko remembered it, but nevertheless, even in 2025, it was possible to access the bot and gain access to all the information. This is precisely what ultimately happened. When security forces detained Polina in February 2025 and gained access to her mobile phone, they were able to connect to the bot and extract all the information. They obtained messages from the accounts that had written to the bot, as well as their IDs and usernames.

Polina is 31 years old. She is originally from Yelsk and studied in Mozyr. In 2020, she supported the protests and even received a day's detention. Polina then retreated into the shadows but remained in the country. Both Zyl and Shukanov were wanted by authorities but refused to leave Belarus.

A student at the Minsk State Linguistic University. Detained in September 2024. Initially, she was sentenced to two days in prison under an administrative article, after which a criminal case was opened. According to acquaintances, the criminal case is politically motivated.

Alina Shevtsova was added to the list of participants of the "extremist formation" "School of Leadership for Women" at the end of September 2024. This is an educational project for Belarusian female students, which helps them develop leadership skills.