Igor Grigorievich Kenyukh

One of the oldest active editors of the Belarusian Wikipedia section and the most experienced administrator. He focused mainly on the ancient history of Belarus, but spent most of his time maintaining order in the section and moderating disputes.

The detention of Maxim Lepushenko is not the first case of recent repressions directed against authors and editors of the Belarusian Wikipedia. The detentions of several Belarusian Wikipedia administrators over several months appear to be part of a coordinated campaign, as indicated by the unfounded attacks from propagandists:
- In April, administrator Olga Sitnik (Khomelka) disappeared; she was detained twice.
- In December 2024, the editor of Stary Jolup was detained.
- In March 2025, Kazimier Lachnovič (real name unknown) disappeared - one of the four administrators of the section on Tarashkevitsa. A week after the disappearance of the administrator Kazimier Lachnovič, propaganda material by Lyudmila Gladkaya was released, in which it was said that Wikipedia is a weapon of mass destruction against the countries of the post-Soviet space, and the Belarusian section is edited from Poland.

He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .

In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.

Alexander was convicted in January 2025 under the articles “insulting Lukashenko,” “inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or discord,” “insulting a government official,” and “creating or participating in an extremist group” and sentenced to imprisonment.

On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.

Artem was arrested in February 2024 and convicted under the article on "financing the activities of an extremist group." He was held in a pretrial detention center before the trial.

He has two higher educations, worked as a programmer, was involved in photography and owned a company renting photo and video equipment.

It is currently known that he is being prosecuted again in connection with a new criminal case under the article “organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.”

Kirill worked at various factories and companies selling industrial equipment. In 2015, he founded a small company, Grifkom-Vector, which sold assembly line components (it closed in 2021). Kirill writes music and film scripts and is also listed in the national register of copyright holders.

He was detained in January 2024: initially for several days for “petty hooliganism,” but then he was not released and a criminal case was opened.

In September 2024, Kirill was convicted of "calls to actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus" and sentenced to imprisonment. In February 2025, he was convicted again, this time under the articles "creating or participating in an extremist group" and "inciting hostility or discord," and also sentenced to imprisonment.

On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.

Detained for participating in protests in 2020, found in a photograph from the protests published in the media.

Natalia was detained during a "solidarity raid" in late January 2024 on charges of supporting political prisoners and their families. That fall, she was convicted of "assisting extremist activity" and "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

It is known that before her arrest, Natalia worked for Solbeg. After the war began, the company relocated a significant portion of its employees abroad, but Natalia remained in Belarus.

On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.