"Regionalnaya Gazeta" is an independent publication covering events in four districts of the Minsk region (Molodechno, Vileika, Myadel and Volozhin) and three districts of the Grodno region (Smorgon, Oshmyany, Ostrovets).
In 2022, the site's materials were deemed "extremist materials." Law enforcement officials say the man will be tried for the texts he published.
On 23.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Alexander Mantsevich.
Trial outcome 03.11.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 400 basic values fine.
The Prinesliks are parishioners of the New Life Church. The man was charged with participating in the protests. Elizaveta was left free because of her young daughter. However, the woman was restricted from leaving the country. Elizaveta is a well-known Instagram blogger , she has more than 50 thousand subscribers .
Trial outcome 29.05.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Nikita Kovalenko is an evangelical believer and a connoisseur of religious architecture.
He was detained during numerous detentions in Fanipol. Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption broke into Kovalenko's apartment and conducted a search, during which the man's personal computer and phone were seized. A criminal case was opened against Nikita, but it is not known what he is charged with.
Nikita Kovalenko is a believer of one of the Minsk Baptist churches and one of the best experts on the religious architecture of Belarus of the XVI century. Recently, he worked as a developer in the IT field. The man had previously been detained during protests in 2020.
A woman was convicted for participating in a protest on August 9, 2020. Marina Lekhnovich is one of five detainees in Zhlobin during a police raid on December 13 last year.
Maxim, a member of the independent trade union Grodno Azot, was arrested on January 10, 2023, and later convicted for participating in protests in Grodno in 2020, as well as for reposting them on social media. He also allegedly insulted Lukashenko on Telegram channels, government officials, and police officers, while also sharing the information with the Belsat television channel.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
He was accused of taking part in the “March for Freedom” in Minsk on August 16, 2020, the defendant fully admitted his guilt in court and repented. He explained that he "succumbed to the actions of the crowd." Evidence of Ilya's participation in the rally was the billing data, as well as a video recording in which "the accused was fixed on the roadway next to people with white-red-white symbols." Kryuk was kept in custody until the trial. After the verdict was announced, he was released in the courtroom.
Trial outcome 02.02.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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