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The 65-year-old director of an auto parts store, Viktor Makarenko, was charged under Article 190 of the Criminal Code ("violation of the equality of citizens") for refusing to sell goods to Russian military personnel and calling them occupiers.
On October 28, 2022, one of the pro-government Telegram channels published a post reporting the detention of the director of an auto parts store in Baranovichi. According to their information, the man told his subordinate: "Don't sell them anything, they are occupiers." The occupiers were Russian military personnel.
The director of an auto parts store was detained. A pro-government Telegram channel claimed that after the detention, evidence was found of the man's participation in the 2020 protests, as well as facts of money transfers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine made after February 24.
The man was indeed detained as part of a criminal case under Article 190 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for three days, and was also arrested for 15 days under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).
The man remained free until the trial.
The Baranovichi District and Baranovichi City Court issued a verdict on February 16, 2023. Prosecutor Svetlana Pasemko requested a fine of 300 basic units (11,100 rubles) for Makarenko. Judge Artem Podolyanets sentenced the man to this punishment.
Even before the trial, the Baranovichi prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the economic court to terminate the activities of individual entrepreneur Makarenko. On December 19, 2022, the economic court stopped his activities. Viktor Makarenko worked as an individual entrepreneur since 1993, now the man is retired.
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.
Ivan was arrested on September 20, 2024. He was convicted several times in a row on administrative charges under Part 2 of Article 19. of the Code of Administrative Offenses within 24 hours . Ivan was released only on December 1 , 2024, after spending more than two months behind bars.
Was arrested in April 2024.
He was released at the end of December 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
According to human rights activists , she was released at the end of November 2024.
Human rights activists do not know what exactly the man is accused of.
According to Yan Karlionov 's social media , he is 37 years old. The Minsk resident graduated from BSU, is married, and has a 15-year-old daughter. Yan's last publications on social media were in 2020: Viktor Babariko's speech and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's message to the Belarusian people.
In November 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Convicted for a protest that took place from August 10 to 11, 2020 in Bereza.
Entrepreneur providing services for refueling, repair and maintenance of car air conditioners and refrigerators.
He was released in early 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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On the morning of February 26, 2023, in the vicinity of the military airfield of the 50th mixed base of the Belarusian Air Force in Machulishchi (Minsk region), local residents heard several explosions. According to BYPOL, they were the result of an attack by a drone of "Belarusian partisans" on a Russian military airborne early warning and control aircraft (AEW&C) A-50. On March 7, 2023, Lukashenko confirmed the information that the aircraft was in Russia, as well as the fact of the attack in Machulishchi. On the same day , the authorities reported that a Ukrainian citizen, Nikolai Shvets, was detained in this case, as alleged, and was named as the perpetrator of the sabotage. Later, state TV channels released an "investigation" about him. Before the sabotage, the man lived in Minsk for a month. At the end of June 2024, Minsk handed over Nikolai Shvets to Ukraine, who was accused of blowing up a military aircraft in the village of Machulishchi.
In January 2024, the list of “extremist formations” was expanded with the projects “KOTOS: Local Self-Government” and “Trielit”.
According to the KGB, Olga Tesakova Dmitry Kukhley is involved in the project “KOTOS: local self-government”, and the Telegram channel “Trielit”: Pavel Alekseev, Kirill Shchemelev, Yanina Andreyuk , Alexey Chernak, Vladimir Balabanovich, Vadim Rushkevich, Yuri Slabodchikov, Alexander Kartsev.
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Gennady was placed in a pretrial detention center long before the trial and has been in custody since late April 2024. The media wrote about the man in 2021, since he had an image of a white-red-white flag on his balcony at home, and then the Pogon coat of arms (and because of this, the security forces paid attention to the man).
The man has two minor children waiting for him at home.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in February 2025.
Dmitry was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland in early May.
Also under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code with Dmitry Andrei Karpovich will be tried.
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From social networks it is known that Elena is 38 years old. The last time she was online was at the end of May. The woman’s VKontakte status says “PEACE.” She was definitely in custody before the trial.
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