Vladimir Viktorovich Areshko
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Vladimir Viktorovich Areshko
Judge in a "power grab" case. Sentenced Vyacheslav Maleychuk to 22 years in prison. Considered a dozen complaints about politically motivated sentences in criminal cases. Each time, he turned a blind eye to the obvious fabrication of the case and left the decision of the previous instance in force.
Judge in a "power grab" case. Sentenced Vyacheslav Maleychuk to 22 years in prison. Considered a dozen complaints about politically motivated sentences in criminal cases. Each time, he turned a blind eye to the obvious fabrication of the case and left the decision of the previous instance in force.
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He was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
She was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
He was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
He was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
She was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
She was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
She was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
He was involved in the criminal case of "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's analysts". The trial in the special proceedings took place in the Minsk Regional Court from May 31 to July 1. There were 20 defendants in the case. According to the case materials , all of them were accused of committing "extremist crimes" in connection with the election campaign of Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in the post-electoral period.
She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who expressed solidarity with the political prisoner.
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Okolotovich was arrested at a cemetery. The KGB lured the priest there by tricking him into coming there: they called him and told him a woman had died and needed a Catholic burial. At the cemetery, they handcuffed him and placed a black helmet on his head so no one could see who was being taken or where.
Two of his parishioners, a man and a woman, were detained at the same time. They spent approximately nine months in a KGB pretrial detention center, where they were forced to testify about the priest's alleged meetings with foreign diplomats.
The charges ultimately brought against Okolotovich were outlandish: he allegedly somehow diverted Russian and Belarusian air force planes in the opposite direction, thereby causing damage not only to Belarus but also to the Russian Aerospace Forces—a total of one million euros. Upon his arrest, approximately 270,000 euros were confiscated from him—mostly parish funds, not the priest's personal funds. This sum was applied toward the debt, and the remainder was claimed as additional payment in Belarusian rubles.
By that time, Okolotovich had already been under surveillance for a long time, but nothing could be found that would prove espionage.
The priest became the latest religious figure to be affected by the regime's repression of religious communities in Belarus.
Genrikh suffered a heart attack and recently underwent stomach surgery for cancer. He requires medical supervision and constant medication. He slept on the floor and boards for over a year; he was only moved to a bunk bed before the trial.
The KGB offered Okolotovych a special condition for his release. Upon returning to Volozhin, he was to invite the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to a church service and discreetly hand him a flash drive containing incriminating evidence—a pretext to discredit the diplomat. At the time, Ante Jozic was the nuncio to Belarus. This provocation against the nuncio wasn't the only one: according to Krylov, the KGB proposed similar scenarios against other foreign diplomats, primarily Polish ones. The priest refused everything: "I am completely imbued with God's ecclesiastical purposes. And what you demand of me is a crime. I cannot betray God."
In November 2025, he was pardoned after a visit to Belarus by the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, as a special envoy of Pope Leo XIV.
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Editor-in-Chief of the Regional Newspaper.
"Regionalnaya Gazeta" is an independent publication covering events in four districts of the Minsk region (Molodechno, Vileika, Myadel and Volozhin) and three districts of the Grodno region (Smorgon, Oshmyany, Ostrovets).
In 2022, the site's materials were deemed "extremist materials." Law enforcement officials say the man will be tried for the texts he published.
On 23.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Alexander Mantsevich.
On February 10, 2023, the first trial took place under Articles 369 and 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus; the appeal hearing was on April 7, 2023.
On October 16, 2023, a new trial was held under Articles 369 and 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus; no appeal was filed.
He was released in mid- February 2024, under preventive supervision.
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The charges are based on comments Kotov allegedly left in so-called extremist Telegram channels over the course of a month and a half following the 2020 presidential elections. There, Lukashenko's regime investigators allegedly found all the crimes listed above.
It is also known that Ivan was detained twice after the 2020 presidential elections. The first time was immediately after August 9. The second time, Lukashenko's security forces seized Kotov in mid-February 2021. Then, riot police detained 68 people in the village of Sokol in the Smolevichi district – participants and spectators of a concert by the band "Razbitae sertsa patsana."
He was released on February 17, 2026, having served his full sentence.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023. However, according to unconfirmed information, Sergei may not have been released after the expiration of his term, but was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a new case, under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). The trial of a man with the same name took place on September 21, 2023 in the Minsk Central District Court.
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Yevgeny was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. In the spring of 2022, he was convicted of "inciting social discord" and "insulting a government official."
Evgeny worked at BelAZ for over 20 years. He has two adult children and grandchildren.
On May 24, 2022, the KGB included him in the list of persons “involved in terrorist activities,” as well as in the list of citizens involved in “extremist activities.”
The sentence against Evgeny has entered into legal force; the exact term of his sentence and the place of his imprisonment are being clarified.