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Names
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Names
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Identifying information
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Reasons for listing
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Date of listing
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‘184.
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Ihar Vasilievich KARPENKA
Igor Vasilievich KARPENKO
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Iгар Васiльевiч КАРПЕНКА
Игорь Васильевич КАРПЕНКО
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Position(s): Chairperson of the Central Commission of the Republic of Belarus on Elections and Holding Republican Referenda
DOB: 28.4.1964
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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In his position as Chairperson of the Central Commission of the Republic of Belarus on Elections and Holding Republican Referenda since 13 December 2021, Ihar Karpenka is responsible for the organisation and holding of the constitutional referendum of 27 February 2022, which does not meet the international standards of rule of law, democracy and human rights and does not meet the criteria set by the Venice Commission. In particular, the drafting process was not transparent and did not involve civil society or the democratic opposition in exile.
He is therefore responsible for seriously undermining democracy and the rule of law in Belarus.
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3.6.2022
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Dzmitry Aliakseevich ALEKSIN
Dmitry Alexeevich OLEKSIN
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Дзмiтрый Аляксеевiч АЛЕКСIН
Дмитрий Алексеевич ОЛЕКСИН
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Position(s): Son of Aliaksei Aleksin, shareholder of Belneftgaz, Energo-Oil and Grantlo (formerly Energo-Oil-Invest)
DOB: 25.4.1987
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Dzmitry Aleksin is the son of Aliaksei Aleksin, a prominent Belarusian businessman. In 2021 he became the co-owner of companies owned by or associated with his father, including Energo-Oil, Belneftgaz and Grantlo (formerly Energo-Oil-Invest). Those companies were given preferential treatment based on presidential decrees signed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka: Inter Tobacco was given exclusive privileges to import tobacco products to Belarus, while Belneftgaz was appointed national transit monitoring operator.
He is therefore benefitting from the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Vital Aliakseevich ALEKSIN
Vitaliy Alexeevich OLEKSIN
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Вiталь Аляксеевiч АЛЯКСIН
Виталий Алексеевич ОЛЕКСИН
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Position(s): Son of Aliaksei Aleksin, shareholder of Belneftgaz, Energo-Oil and Grantlo (formerly Energo-Oil-Invest)
DOB: 29.8.1997
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Vital Aleksin is the son of Aliaksei Aleksin, a prominent Belarusian businessman. In 2021 he became the co-owner of companies owned by or associated with his father, including Energo-Oil, Belneftgaz and Grantlo (formerly Energo-Oil-Invest). Those companies were given preferential treatment based on presidential decrees signed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka: Inter Tobacco was given exclusive privileges to import tobacco products to Belarus, while Belneftgaz was appointed national transit monitoring operator.
He is therefore benefitting from the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Bogoljub KARIĆ
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Богољуб КАРИЋ
Боголюб КАРИЧ
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Position(s): Serbian businessman and politician, associated with the company Dana Holdings
DOB: 17.1.1954
POB: Peja/Pec, Kosovo
Gender: male
Nationality: Serbian
Passport number: 012830978 (valid until 27.12.2026)
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Bogoljub Karić is a Serbian businessman and politician. Together with his family members, he developed a network of real estate companies in Belarus and has cultivated a network of contacts with the family of Aliaksandr Lukashenka. In particular, he has been closely associated with Dana Holdings and its former subsidiary Dana Astra, and he reportedly represented those entities during meetings with Lukashenka. The Minsk World project, which was developed by a company associated with Karić, was described by Lukashenka as "an example of cooperation of the Slavonic world". Thanks to those close relationships with Lukashenka and his entourage, companies associated with Karić received preferential treatment from the Lukashenka regime, including tax breaks and plots of land for real estate development.
He is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Andrii SICH
Andrey SYCH
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Андрiй СИЧ
Андрей СЫЧ
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Position(s): Co-host of programme "Platform" on state-owned television channel "Belarus 1"
Member of organisation "Rusj molodaja"
DOB: 20.9.1990
POB: Belarus
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Andrii Sich is a co-host of the programme "Platform" on state-owned television channel "Belarus 1". In that position, he has supported regime narratives that aim to discredit independent media, undermine democracy and justify repression. He has supported the Lukashenka regime's narrative about Western states' intentions to organise a coup d'état in Belarus and called for harsh punishments for those allegedly involved, supported disinformation campaigns about mistreatment of migrants arriving in the Union from Belarus, and promoted the image of independent media as agents of foreign influence whose activity should be restricted.
He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Dzianis Aliaksandravich MIKUSHEU
Denis Alexandrovich MIKUSHEV
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Дзянiс Аляксандравiч МIКУШЭЎ
Денис Александрович МИКУШЕВ
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Position(s): Head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with the Law of Court Decisions in Criminal Cases of the Prosecutor's Office of the Gomel Region/Oblast; senior legal adviser
DOB: 21.3.1980
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Dzianis Mikusheu is the Head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with the Law of Court Decisions in Criminal Cases of the Prosecutor's Office of the Gomel Region/Oblast and senior legal adviser. In that position, he is responsible for initiating the prosecutions of Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Artsiom Sakau, Dzmitry Papou, lhar Losik, Uladzimir Tsyhanovich and Mikalai Statkevich. He contributed to the arbitrary detention of Siarhei Tsikhanouski, as presented in the report by the Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
He is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations and for undermining the rule of law, as well as for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition.
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3.6.2022
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Mikalai Ivanavich DOLIA
Nikolai Ivanovich DOLYA
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Мiĸалай Iванавiч ДОЛЯ
Ниĸолай Иванович ДОЛЯ
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Position(s): Judge at the Gomel Regional Court
DOB: 3.7.1979
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
Personal ID: 3070379H041PBI
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Mikalai Dolia is a judge at the Gomel Regional Court. ln that position, he is responsible for sentencing Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Artsiom Sakau, Dzmitry Papou, lhar Losik, Uladzimir Tsyhanovich and Mikalai Statkevich to disproportionally lengthy prison terms. He contributed to the arbitrary detention of Siarhei Tsikhanouski, as presented in the report by the Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
He is therefore responsible for serious violations of human rights and for undermining the rule of law, as well as for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition.
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3.6.2022
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Andrei Yauhenavich PARSHYN
Andrei Yevgenevich PARSHIN
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Андрэй Яўгенавiч ПАРШЫН
Андрей Евгеньевич ПАРШИН
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Position(s): Head of the Main Department for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption in Belarus (GUBOPiK)
DOB: 19.2.1974
Address: 4A Skryganova St., Apt. 211, Minsk, Belarus
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Andrei Parshyn is the Head of the Main Department for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) in the Ministry of Internal Affairs since 2021. GUBOPiK is one of the main bodies responsible for political persecution in Belarus, including arbitrary and unlawful arrests and ill-treatment, including torture, of activists and members of civil society.
GUBOPiK has published on its Telegram profile videos of forced confessions by Belarusian activists and ordinary citizens, exposing them to the Belarusian general public and using them as a tool for political pressure. GUBOPiK also detained Mark Bernstein, one of the top Russian-language Wikipedia editors, for publishing information on the Russian aggression against Ukraine, considered as anti-Russian "fake news".
Andrei Parshyn is therefore responsible for serious violations of human rights and for the repression of civil society in Belarus.
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3.6.2022
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Ihar Piatrovich TUR
Igor Petrovich TUR
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Iгар Пятровiч ТУР
Игорь Петрович ТУР
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Position(s): Employee of state-owned television channel "ONT", author and anchor of several programmes ("Propaganda", "To be completed")
DOB: 26.3.1989
POB: Grodno/Hrodna, Belarus
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Ihar Tur is an employee of the state-owned television channel "ONT" and one of the main propagandists of the Lukashenka regime. He is the host of the "Propaganda" programme, in which he calls for violence, discredits opposition activists and promotes videos with forced confessions from political prisoners. He is the author of a number of false reports on protests by the Belarusian opposition, and of disinformation regarding events in the Union and regarding attacks on civil society. He is also responsible for spreading disinformation and violence-inciting messages online. He was awarded a medal by Aliaksandr Lukashenka for his work in the media.
He is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Lyudmila Leanidauna HLADKAYA
Lyudmila Leonidovna GLADKAYA
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Людмiла Леанiдаўна ГЛАДКАЯ
Людмила Леонидовна ГЛАДКАЯ
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Position(s): Special correspondent of "SB Belarus Segodnya" newspaper, presenter on state-owned television channel "Belarus 1"
DOB: 30.6.1983
Address: 8A Vodolazhsky St., apt. 45, Minsk, Belarus
Gender: female
Nationality: Belarusian
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Lyudmila Hladkaya is one of the most prominent propagandists of the Lukashenka regime. She is an employee of the newspaper "SB Belarus Segodnya" and an associate of other pro-regime media, including state-owned television channel "Belarus 1". She frequently uses hate speech and derogatory language while speaking of democratic opposition. She has also conducted numerous "interviews" with unjustly detained Belarusian citizens, often students, showing them in humiliating situations and mocking them. She has promoted repression by the Belarusian security apparatus and taken part in disinformation and information manipulation campaigns. She is publicly voicing support for Aliaksandr Lukashenka and expressing pride in serving his regime. For her work, she has been publicly praised by and received awards from Lukashenka.
She is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Ryhor Yuryevich AZARONAK
Grigoriy Yurevich AZARYONOK
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Рыгор Юр'евiч АЗАРОНАК
Григорий Юрьевич АЗАРЁНОК
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Position(s): Employee of state-owned television channel "CTV", author and host of several programmes ("Secret Springs of Politics", "Order of Judas", "Panopticon")
Rank: Lieutenant in reserve
DOB: 18.10.1995
POB: Minsk, Belarus
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Ryhor Azaronak is one of the chief propagandists of the Lukashenka regime. He is a political columnist, author and the host of weekly propaganda shows on the state-owned television channel "CTV". In his broadcasts he endorsed violence against dissenters of the Lukashenka regime, and systematically used derogatory language about activists, journalists and other opponents of the Lukashenka regime. He received an award with the medal "For Courage" from Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
He is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.
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3.6.2022
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Ivan Ivanavich GALAVATYI
Ivan Ivanovich GOLOVATY
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Iван Iванавiч ГАЛАВАТЫ
Иван Иванович ГОЛОВАТЫЙ
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Position(s): Director-General of the Open Joint Stock Company "Belaruskali"
Member of the Standing Committee of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus for Foreign Affairs and National Security
DOB: 15.6.1976
POB: Pogost Settlement, Soligorsk District, Minsk Province, Belarus
Gender: male
Nationality: Belarusian
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Ivan Galavatyi is the Director-General of the state-owned enterprise Belaruskali, which is a major source of revenue and foreign currency for the Lukashenka regime. He is a member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly and holds multiple other high positions in Belarus. He has received multiple state awards, including directly from Aliaksandr Lukashenka, during his career. He has been closely associated with Lukashenka and members of his family. He is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.
The employees of Belaruskali who took part in strikes and peaceful protests in the aftermath of the fraudulent August 2020 presidential elections in Belarus were deprived of premiums and dismissed. Lukashenka himself personally threatened to replace the strikers with miners from Ukraine. Ivan Galavatyi is therefore responsible for the repression of civil society.
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