On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Irina was arrested in 2024 and convicted of "inciting hatred and discord" and insulting Lukashenko. It is also known that in February of that year, she was arrested on administrative charges of distributing materials included on the national list of extremist materials, as well as their production, storage, or transportation with intent to distribute.
In September 2025, she was released, having served her entire sentence.
The basis for the criminal case was the fact that in June 2024, in the presence of employees of the Krasnopolsky District Department of Internal Affairs and the Krasnopolsky District Department of Compulsory Enforcement, Kireyev, "using obscene language, expressed his negative assessment of the personality of the President of the Republic of Belarus."
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in the summer of 2025.
Trial outcome 02.10.2024
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
It is known that in the summer of 2025, Vadim's sentence was commuted from a life sentence to actual imprisonment. He spent the last five months and 21 days in Penal Colony No. 17.
He was released at the end of 2025.
In the fallof 2026, Vadim claimed that KGBofficers,after his release, threatenedhim with newcriminalprosecutionand offeredto cooperatewith the intelligence services.He claimed he was sentto Poland, where he was supposed to live, establish contacts, and pass on information about the people he would interact with to the Belarusian KGB.
Trial outcome 23.09.2024
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 22.11.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 02.07.2025
5 months 21 day of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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