A former OMON fighter who is now fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. Potekhin is a former military man. He was the one named as the perpetrator of the attack on the OMON base. Both are associated with the "Supra" initiative, which the Lukashenko regime has declared terrorist.
Kulazhenko and Potekhina were charged under eight articles of the Criminal Code.
The property of Kulazhenko and Potehin, worth a total of approximately 240 thousand rubles, has been seized.
Trial outcome 23.12.2024
23 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
journalist, politician. Member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, founder of the newspaper "Vitebsky Courier", founder of the organization "Our House".
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 12000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Representative of the association of former security officials BYPOL.
On the morning of February 26, 2023, explosions occurred at the Machulishchi airfield near a Russian long-range reconnaissance aircraft DRLV A-50, it was blown up in two places. It was used to guide Russian missiles to targets in Ukraine. It was reported that the aircraft is currently undergoing repairs at the 325th aircraft repair plant, which is part of the Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex in Russia.
The main defendant in the case and, as official bodies and propagandists claimed , the perpetrator of the sabotage, Nikolai Shvets, was released in June in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine.
Nikolai Shvets, Alexander Azarov, Alla Yatsuta, Vitaly Yakutik, Evgenia Tochitskaya, Mikhail Demin and Sergei Loparov were tried in absentia.
On August 19, the Minsk City Court will hear another criminal case against Alexander Azarov. He is charged under Part 3 of Article 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism), Part 4 of Article 309 of the Criminal Code (intentional rendering a vehicle unusable), and Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code (Treason).
Belarusian state, political and public figure. Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus. Member of the Coordinating Council for organizing the process of overcoming the political crisis. Head of the People's Anti-Crisis Administration.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
Pavel Latushko refused the lawyer assigned to him. According to him, the Investigative Committee is trying to create the appearance of legality, but it does not work well. He also demanded to receive a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case or to recognize him as a suspect. But I did not receive the corresponding document.
Trial outcome 06.03.2023
18 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions (trial in absentia).
Candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the 2020 elections. After the announcement of the official results, protests began. Tikhanovskaya announced the usurpation of power by the incumbent president and called for new and fair elections. On August 11, 2020, Tikhanovskaya left Belarus. Her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a blogger and politician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
On January 11, Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya applied to the Minsk City Court demanding that she be granted the right to familiarize herself with the materials of the case in her trial in absentia. She also notified the court that she was going to exercise her right to a lawyer. She also wrote to the Minsk City and Republican Bar Associations that she wanted to contact the lawyer assigned to her and work out a position.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stressed that she considers the procedure of trial in absentia a violation of basic human rights and freedoms.
Stepan is a Belarusian journalist, blogger, director, TV presenter, author and creator of the NEXTA channels on socio-political topics.
In 2020, a criminal case was opened against Stepan under a number of articles, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hatred." As part of the special proceedings, in May 2023, he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony. According to the Belarusian state news agency BelTA, the defendants in the "case" are accused of committing at least 1,586 crimes, and a claim for more than 30 million rubles has been filed.
Earlier, the KGB included Stepan in the “terrorist list”, and the NEXTA channel in Belarus was recognized as a “terrorist organization”.
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