{"id":133588,"date":"2025-04-09T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/133588\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"belarusian-dissidents-journalists-pundits-among-1200-additions-to-russian-wanted-list","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/133588\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian dissidents, journalists, pundits among 1,200 additions to Russian wanted list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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April 9, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>More than 1,200 Belarusians have been placed on the Russian wanted list at Minsk’s request over the past five months, Mediazona<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This number is comparable to known additions to the list for the entire year of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 58 of the new additions were convicted in Belarus on charges widely seen as politically motivated. One of them is Iryna \u0160\u010dasnaja, former administrator of the Maja Kraina Bie\u0142aru\u015b group on Telegram. The list also features ex-investigator Alaksandar Antaniuk, Andrej Pry\u0142ucki of the strike committee at the Bie\u0142aru\u015bkalij potash giant, human rights defender Alaksandar Burako\u016d and TV host Valeryja Kustava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list includes many exiled journalists, among them Fiodar Pa\u016dlu\u010denka, editor in chief at Reform.news<\/em>, Belsat <\/em>TV CEO Alina Ko\u016d\u0161yk, deputy heads of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Barys Harecki and Aleh Aheje\u016d, Euroradio<\/em>\u2019s Maryja Kale\u015bnikava and \u0179micier \u0141uka\u0161uk; D\u017amitryj Hurnievi\u010d, Aleh Hruzdzilovi\u010d and Juryj Drakachrust from the Belarus’ Service of RFE\/RL<\/em>, Iryna Novik from hrodna.life<\/em>, former Na\u0161a Niva<\/em>‘s editor Andrej Skurko and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pundits Arciom \u0160rajbman, Valeryj Karbalevi\u010d, Jaras\u0142a\u016d Raman\u010duk, D\u017amitryj Ba\u0142kuniec as well as Natalla Rabava, Ta\u0107ciana \u010culickaja, Vieranika Lapu\u0107ka and Alaksandar \u0160\u0142yk, convicted in Belarus in a high-profile politically-motivated case without being present at the trial, are also wanted in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vital Hurko\u016d, a Belarusian kickboxer who won several Muay Thai world championships, actor D\u017amitryj Jesianievi\u010d, writer Sa\u0161a Filipienka, historian Cimafiej Akudovi\u010d and culture expert Siarhiej Budkin are among other addions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian wanted list also features Belarusian volunteers fighting Russia in Ukraine, bloggers, family members of exiled politicians and people persecuted on political grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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