Nikita Petrovsky

Affiliated media: BAR24, Journalist

Incident date: November 11, 2025

Attack type:

• Selective application of repressive laws

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Natalia Semenovich, Nikita Petrovsky, Ruslan Revyako and Lyudmila Zelenkova have been added to the list of persons involved in “extremist” activity maintained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. All of them are employees of the Baranovichi-based information outlet BAR24, created by the team of the former independent regional publication Intex-Press. They were detained in December 2024. In August 2025, the Brest Regional Court convicted them under Article 361-4 (“assisting extremist activity”). All were charged under Part Two of the article - most likely because their alleged “offence” was committed by a group of persons, according to the outlet’s authors.