It is not known when the man was detained, but the last time he was online on his VKontakte page was on December 29, 2022, although he had previously visited there regularly.
It is known that in 2015 the man lived in Poland. And in 2019 and 2021 he wrote that he lived in Germany, was engaged in artificial intelligence and worked for the German company EDEKA GmbH/WITRON. His main messengers were linked to a German number, and his mailbox was on a German domain, that is, he lived in Germany permanently.
According to CyberPartizan, Novogrodsky has not officially worked in Belarus since 2011 and has three children from different women.
As Nasha Niva writes, Alexey is interested in philosophy and participated in thematic conferences - for example, in April 2021, he gave a report "Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence" at the scientific conference "Philosophy and Challenges of Modernity", which was organized by the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The press service said in a statement that the man convicted in March-April 2022 posted messages in an "extremist" chat aimed at "exacerbating tensions in society and destabilizing the situation in the Republic of Belarus." He also wrote "negative messages and comments that discredit the Republic of Belarus" and insult officials and Lukashenko.
German partially admitted his guilt in court.
On December 18 , 2024, the Bobruisk District Court and Bobruisk will hear Alexey's case "on transfer to a different type of correctional facility and change of regime conditions."
