Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric

Irina was arrested in October 2024 in connection with the "yard chats" case.

Irina Yakovleva is known to have been an active Orthodox believer, involved in church art and donating to churches and monasteries in Belarus. She worked as an accountant.

On October 29, 2024, the KGB recognized the courtyard coalition "Orden", which includes the courtyard chats "Zlye Kogtiki", "Sukharevo", "Senica2.0", "Solidarity", "Volnyya Vauki", "Navagrudskiya Partisans", "VILIYA", "Skromnye Matryoshka", and "Sosedi", as an "extremist formation".

According to the agency, those involved in these initiatives include Irina Yakovleva, Natalia Doronina, Diana Gavrilova, Ukrainian citizen Ivan Omelyan, Olga Nekhaychik, Konstantin Kirilenko, Yelizaveta Plitnik, Natalia Guzhova, Irina Smolyarova, Stanislav Botvin, and Natalia Lantukh. A few days later, mass arrests in this case took place across Belarus.

Presumably detained for assisting political prisoners.

She was detained along with her husband Andrei Selyaninov on October 31, 2024 and placed into custody for " active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order."

Violeta graduated from school in Minsk and entered the Warsaw Academy of Arts. The girl is interested in photography and loves traveling.

Three years ago she got married and changed her last name. The couple became famous because the guy, former football player Fedor Verbitsky, proposed to the girl right at the stadium after the end of the game.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Father Gennady testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers calling for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

Irina worked as a sales specialist and then as a manager at Anastan. She was convicted along with her daughter and husband.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Gennady, the husband, testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers with a call for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

Entrepreneur. His business is JSC Anastan, a large company engaged in the production of polystyrene foam.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Gennady testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers calling for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

Olga Rodionova worked until 2020 at KYKY.org, primarily for the "Pain" section, and also collaborated as a freelancer with Belarusian and foreign media.

During her detention in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1, Olga was sent for a psychiatric examination to the hospital in Novinki. Olga's sick mother , who is over 80 years old , requires constant care .

Daniil Polyansky is a Brest journalist. In early September, Polyansky went to Russia to visit relatives. On the way, there was an incident with Russian security forces. His car was stopped by FSB officers and he was accused of an administrative violation for disobedience - allegedly he refused to show documents.

"Danil said that at that time his passport was in the hands of a Russian security officer," says one of Polyansky's acquaintances. "Later, when he returned to Brest, he was detained by KGB officers."

Initially it was assumed that he was detained for some administrative violation. But it became known that a criminal case had been opened.

Danil Polyansky is 53 years old. As a videographer, he once collaborated with state and commercial TV channels, as well as with independent regional sites. In recent years, he was known in Brest as a volunteer for the search and rescue squad "Angel".

Evgeniy is a former IT manager from Mogilev. After the 2006 elections and several years of political activism, he was expelled from the history department of Mogilev University. He graduated from the history department in Poznan and worked as a manager at an IT company, supplying dairy products. In 2013, Evgeniy returned to Belarus, immediately got married, and then went to work. While he had previously focused primarily on public and academic activities (in the student ethnographic society and the oral history archive), he has now gone into business.

And since the beginning of 2017, he has taken on a new occupation: at the request of clients, he has recorded interviews with their village grandparents and edited documentaries.

He is accused of aiding extremist activity.

Evgeniya has a wife and two small children waiting for her at home.

Mikhail is originally from Borisov, but lived in Minsk. He studied at BSU to become a manager.
It is known that Mikhail played poker under the nickname Rattly. He was noted for participating in numerous championships. Among them is the championship of Belarus.

Mikhail's trial began on October 17 in the Minsk City Court. The charges against him probably arose because of his support for Ukraine. He is charged under Part 2 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code (Assistance or other material support for war). The penalty for this article is five to ten years in prison.