He was a suspect under Part 1 of Article 342 before the trial. He was ultimately convicted under Articles 328 and 329 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 13.08.2021
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A well-known Belarusian blogger, author of the channels "My Country is Belarus", "Lukashenko's Mustache". In June 2020, when the arrests of bloggers began, he left Belarus. In 2022, he stated that he was related to the press service of the Kalinovsky regiment in Ukraine, published photos in which he was with a weapon, in military uniform. Bespalov is currently participating in "Paspality Rushenni".
Trial outcome 05.03.2025
18 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).
In August 2024, Igor Selikhanov's page on the Odnoklassniki social network was included in the republican list of extremist materials. According to the personal information posted on it, the man was born in 1975 in Orsha and graduated from Orsha Secondary School No. 6. Igor Selikhanov's last activity on his Odnoklassniki page was recorded in September 2022. Later, on other social networks, he reported that he lives in Warsaw.
Maxim was detained after Belarusian security forces gained access to the correspondence of the Gayun monitoring project bot, where people sent information about the movements of Russian troops. Soon, the GUBOPiK Telegram channel showed the first person detained due to the leak - Maxim Nikitenko. He is 42 years old, a native of Mozyr. In recent years, he worked at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
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