He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .
In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.
