Former Border Guard and Transgaz Driver from Novolukoml Sentenced for Politics
Vitaly Golubovsky was imprisoned, presumably in connection with the Hayun case.
Vitaly Golubovsky. Photo from his VKontakte page
Vitaly Golubovsky is 49 years old. The man is originally from Narovlya, but lived in Novolukoml in the Vitebsk region for a long time. In 2010, he graduated from the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University, receiving a diploma as an electrical engineer.
Previously, Vitaly served as a border guard. Afterwards, he worked as a bus driver for over 15 years. In recent years, he was a driver for "Gazprom Transgaz Belarus" — transporting a team of telemechanics.
The man is divorced and has two sons.
At the end of last year, he was detained and imprisoned. The Vitebsk Regional Court tried Golubovsky under parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating extremist activity). This article is usually used to prosecute for messages sent to the chat of the "Belarusian Hayun" monitoring project.
The man was most likely sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral.
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"Belaruski Hayun" is an OSINT monitoring project created in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine via Belarus. The project tracked the military activity of Russian and Belarusian troops, relying on information from Belarusians. Its activities were coordinated by a group of activists led by Anton Motolko.
The Hayun case began after security forces detained an activist who had lived underground in Belarus for several years. On her mobile phone, they found a link to join the Hayun bot, which had been sent to her at the very beginning of the project's existence. The fatal mistake was that the link was permanent. As a result, the security forces were able to connect to the bot and download all information from it. They obtained messages from accounts that wrote to the bot, as well as their IDs and usernames.
The girl herself was detained because she was forced to contact state structures, specifically medics. Her boyfriend, who was hiding with her, started having severe health problems due to his father's arrest.
Immediately after the breach, Hayun's founder Anton Motolko explained how the information leak occurred and announced the project's closure.
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