Dmitriy Gennadievich Kurovsky
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Dmitry Gennadievich Kurovsky is an employee of the judicial authorities involved in politically motivated repressions, in which thousands of peaceful demonstrators, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence. He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed punishment in the form of a fine totaling at least 16,670 rubles, and administrative arrest for a total period of at least 179 days. Convicted Sergei Yuryevich Nikityuk under Part 1 of Article 368 (Insulting Lukashenko) and Part 1 of Article 361-4 (Promoting extremist activities). The reason for the persecution was Sergei’s comment on the Internet; it is also known that the guy sent a photo of his voting ballot to the NEXTA editorial bot. Kurovsky sentenced Sergei to 3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions. Convicted political prisoner Yevgeny Tazov under Article 369 (Insulting a government official) and Part 1 of Article 130 (Inciting social hostility or discord) of the Criminal Code for commenting on the Internet. Kurovsky imposed a sentence of two and a half years in prison under general regime conditions. Also, Evgeniy’s phone was confiscated as a “means of committing a crime.”
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Dmitry Gennadievich Kurovsky is an employee of the judicial authorities involved in politically motivated repressions, in which thousands of peaceful demonstrators, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence. He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed punishment in the form of a fine totaling at least 16,670 rubles, and administrative arrest for a total period of at least 179 days. Convicted Sergei Yuryevich Nikityuk under Part 1 of Article 368 (Insulting Lukashenko) and Part 1 of Article 361-4 (Promoting extremist activities). The reason for the persecution was Sergei’s comment on the Internet; it is also known that the guy sent a photo of his voting ballot to the NEXTA editorial bot. Kurovsky sentenced Sergei to 3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions. Convicted political prisoner Yevgeny Tazov under Article 369 (Insulting a government official) and Part 1 of Article 130 (Inciting social hostility or discord) of the Criminal Code for commenting on the Internet. Kurovsky imposed a sentence of two and a half years in prison under general regime conditions. Also, Evgeniy’s phone was confiscated as a “means of committing a crime.”
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According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is reported that Yulia Sharanova took part in the protests when she was 16 years old, and Nikita Voityuk and Nikolai Nikityuk were 17 years old.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is also known that Maxim Sobolev, Gleb Klimovich, Yulia Sharanova were convicted, including on “narcotic” charges.
Maxim Sobolev under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. But since Maxim was already convicted under the “narcotic” part 4 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code, by partial addition of the main punishments and the full addition of an additional punishment, 12 years in prison were sentenced to serve in a correctional colony under a high security regime with a fine of 3,200 rubles.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is reported that Yulia Sharanova participated in the protests when she was 16 years old. It is also known that Maxim Sobolev, Gleb Klimovich, Yulia Sharanova were convicted, including on “narcotic” charges.
Yulia Sharanova was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for participating in the August protest. But due to the fact that she was convicted under Part 4 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code, she was eventually sentenced to 13 years in prison under general regime conditions with a fine of 3,700 rubles.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is also known that Maxim Sobolev, Gleb Klimovich, Yulia Sharanova were convicted, including on “narcotic” charges.
Gleb Klimovich was sentenced to Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code, two years of imprisonment, and based on the totality of crimes by absorbing a less severe punishment with a more severe one, he was finally sentenced to imprisonment for a term of two years, serving the sentence in a correctional colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is reported that Yulia Sharanova took part in the protests when she was 16 years old, and Nikita Voityuk and Nikolai Nikityuk were 17 years old. It is also known that Maxim Sobolev, Gleb Klimovich, Yulia Sharanova were convicted, including on “narcotic” charges.
The investigation established that Artur Radzivanovich “on his own initiative entered into correspondence with representatives of the armed formation “K. Kalinovsky’s Regiment” via Telegram.” During the conversation, he clarified the procedure and conditions for enlisting in the regiment, and then planned the crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus with the Republic of Poland and the further route to Ukraine. Arriving on December 30, 2023 at the international checkpoint “Brest” to travel to Ukraine through the territory of Poland, the accused was detained by internal affairs officers.
On September 15, 2023, 57-year-old Gennady Vasilyuk was fined for "distributing extremist materials." Subscriptions to "extremist" materials were found on Gennady's Odnoklassniki page. In addition, Vasilyuk was fired from the locomotive depot "by mutual agreement."
On December 7, 2023, Gennady was detained as part of a criminal case for "slandering Lukashenko" (Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and placed in custody in a pretrial detention center. The case was heard on February 22 and 26, 2024.
The man was accused of posting the "like" reaction on the Odnoklassniki social network on June 8, 9, and 17, 2022, under three videos featuring economist Yaroslav Romanchuk.
Gennady admitted his guilt and reported that on the specified days in June he went to a village in the Zhabinka district, which is confirmed by an extract from a mobile operator. The man uses a push-button phone, so he could not log into Odnoklassniki in the village.
Prosecutor Yegor Kronda considered Gennady's guilt to be fully proven and requested one year and six months of imprisonment for him.
Gennady was convicted for the second time on September 16, 2024, for participating in protests. His wife and three other people were convicted along with him. According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped their hands, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
The court sentenced Gennady to one and a half years in prison, but taking into account the unserved previous (political) term, the final sentence was only 2 years in a general regime prison.
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Since 2020, Elena has been subjected to systematic persecution for political reasons: she has been detained and arrested under administrative articles 17 times, and has been fined a total of 173 basic units. Her home has been searched several times.
In May 2021, Elena was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest on September 13, 2020 in Brest, where participants sang songs and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them. According to the prosecution, the protest disrupted the operation of transport. She was sentenced to restriction of freedom without being sent to an institution.
In September of the same year, Elena was convicted again for “insulting Lukashenko.” The combined sentences amounted to three years of “house arrest.”
In January 2022, she was arrested for "violating the serving of a sentence" and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. However, she was never released - she was transferred to a pretrial detention center as part of a new criminal case initiated for slandering Lukashenko and discrediting the Republic of Belarus. In June, she was sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
In April 2023, Elena was convicted again under the article "malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration." This article is often applied to prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, for fictitious violations.
It is known that physical and psychological pressure is constantly applied to Elena. She is regularly placed in solitary confinement and PKT, deprived of almost all parcels, calls, visits, and her merchandise allowance was reduced from three basic units to one.
In February 2025, Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk reported that Elena had been placed in the PKT again: “After several weeks in the punishment cell, she was transferred to the PKT. It is 99% likely that Article 411 will be fabricated against her again.”
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Detained for a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was a minor at the time of that protest.
Nikita and seven other people began their trial on May 10, 2024, in the Moscow District Court of Brest.
According to human rights activists , he was released on September 27, 2024.
In the "repentance video," the man says he was detained for participating in a rally after the elections and going out into the roadway.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to 11, 2020, then-minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolai Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, and Maksim Sobolev, while on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Kosmonavtov and Shevchenko Boulevards, and Sovetskaya Street in Brest, " shouted slogans, displayed white-red-white banners, grossly violating public order, and deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of businesses and organizations."
At the court hearing, everyone admitted their guilt completely.
In September 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
Detained for financing extremist activities, namely helping political prisoners and their families.
