Not only Kanavalau and Kavaliou were tried for the explosion in the Minsk metro. What happened to the fate of three other defendants in the case?

Vitaly Rahachouski (left) and Ruslan Sinitsyn. Photo from the "Cyberpartisans" database

Their further fate became known thanks to information from the "Cyberpartisans".

Ensign Vitaly Rahachouski was on duty at Frunzenskaya station on the evening of April 11, 2011, and did not pay attention to Dmitry Konovalov with a large bag passing through the metro. Already on April 18, he was dismissed from the police "for violating official discipline." Rahachouski was sentenced to three years in an open-type penal colony for negligent performance of official duties.

However, he spent no more than half of his sentence in confinement.

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Vitaly Rahachouski on duty letting Dmitry Konovalov with a bag pass. Screenshot from surveillance cameras

After his release, Rahachouski worked in Minsk shops — apparently as a security guard. The former law enforcement officer was noted in databases for periodically calling the police when he caught petty thieves at his workplace.

For the last few years, the man worked as a janitor in the capital — a "complex cleaning worker." He is now 49 years old.

Ruslan Sinitsyn, a senior forensic expert from Vitebsk, now 46 years old, was sentenced to three years in an open-type penal colony for official negligence after the metro explosion.

Before joining the police, Sinitsyn worked in civil aviation (he graduated from the Minsk Higher Aviation College). Later, he was an expert at the phonoscopic laboratory of the expert-forensic center of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. He was involved in identifying "phone terrorists," then conducted dactyloscopy (fingerprinting).

In 2009, he believed conscript Dmitry Konovalov when the latter said he had already submitted his fingerprints. Sinitsyn issued him a certificate stating that he had supposedly undergone dactyloscopy. As a result, Konovalov was sought for longer in 2011 (and was not checked for involvement in the Minsk explosion on July 4, 2008).

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Ruslan Sinitsyn. Photo: vsmu.by

During his time in the Horki open-type penal colony, Sinitsyn worked at local enterprises "Komunalnik," PMK #1, and "Budavnik." He was released in early 2013.

The former police captain went to the Vitebsk Meat Processing Plant, and then to "Belteploizolyatsiya." In 2015-2017, Sinitsyn worked for the Grodno Evangelical Lutheran community. Later, he finally moved into logistics and worked for various companies.

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Ruslan Sinitsyn — second from left. At the mini-football championship in Mogilev. Photo: fezmogilev.by

The harshest sentence among this trio — six years in a penal colony — was received by Maxim Zholudzev. Back in the early 2000s, he, then a cadet of military unit 22249, stole three trotyl blocks (TNT sticks) which eventually fell into Konovalov's hands and became the basis for the bomb.

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Maxim Zholudzev. Photo from the "Cyberpartisans" database

After his release in 2015, Zholudzev remained faithful to the construction sector, where he worked before his imprisonment. Zholudzev changed several jobs, moving from "Vitebskoblselbud" to private companies.

The man died in Vitebsk on March 9, 2023, from the consequences of the coronavirus. He was 43 years old.

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