She handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where she imposed punishment in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 6,050 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 77 days. She handed down a sentence to Vladimir Branovitsky, who was accused of hooliganism under Part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code for “out of hooligan aspirations and with exceptional cynicism, 17 times he placed homemade products from cloth in white-red-white colors on power poles near highways.” For this, Vladimir received one year of imprisonment in a general regime colony. She convicted Vitaly Korshun, who was accused of influencing an internal affairs officer to change the nature of his activities by threatening to destroy property (Article 365 of the Criminal Code) for a comment under a photo on the Internet. She handed down a sentence with a punishment of two months of administrative arrest.
She handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where she imposed punishment in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 6,050 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 77 days. She handed down a sentence to Vladimir Branovitsky, who was accused of hooliganism under Part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code for “out of hooligan aspirations and with exceptional cynicism, 17 times he placed homemade products from cloth in white-red-white colors on power poles near highways.” For this, Vladimir received one year of imprisonment in a general regime colony. She convicted Vitaly Korshun, who was accused of influencing an internal affairs officer to change the nature of his activities by threatening to destroy property (Article 365 of the Criminal Code) for a comment under a photo on the Internet. She handed down a sentence with a punishment of two months of administrative arrest.
Vitaly was found guilty in September 2021 of influencing a law enforcement officer to change the nature of his activities by threatening to destroy property for a comment he left in the "Borovki 97%" Telegram chat under a photo of Sergeant Major Sergei Balabanovich, and was sentenced to arrest.
In January 2024, pro-government Telegram channels reported Vitaly's re-arrest . In a "confessional video," he stood in front of the camera, handcuffed, and said that he "called for violence against riot police officers only out of emotion."
From August to October 2024, Vitaly faced several court hearings in a criminal case opened under charges of "defamation of Lukashenko," "participation in actions grossly violating public order," "organizing mass riots," "calls for sanctions," and "inciting hatred or enmity." The outcome is unknown.
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Sergey is an entrepreneur. Since 2022, he has been repeatedly charged with "dissemination of extremist materials" for forwarding news from the NEXTA channel to Telegram and liking the "STOP LUKA" community on Odnoklassniki.
Following the August 2020 elections in Belarus, Sergei posted a call to stop trains in order to destabilize the country's economic situation on the Telegram channel "Railwaymen of Belarus" (later deemed extremist). He was arrested for this, and in April 2024, he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
In the fall of 2025, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 11.04.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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