46-year-old Rechytsa resident Tatsiana Sharak worked in the beauty industry for a long time.
Tatsiana Sharak is a graduate of Francysk Skaryna Homiel State University. In 2003, she defended her diploma at the Faculty of Economics with a specialization in «Economics and Management».
Tatsiana has two minor sons. She works as a hair extension master in Rechytsa.
Recently, the woman was sentenced in the Homiel Regional Court. She was accused under parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of Belarus — «aiding extremist activity». This article is usually associated with the Gayun case.
Tatsiana was sentenced to restricted freedom at home.
The Belarusian authorities consider subscriptions to independent channels, media, the presence of links to them on social networks, or the presence of Belarusian national, pre-Lukashenka symbols on social networks or on personal items as «extremism». «Extremism» also includes virtually any criticism of the authorities, official historical narratives, or expressions of solidarity with Ukraine.
Numerous recent criminal cases under the article on «aiding extremism» have been linked to the «Gayun case».
«Belaruski Hayun» is an OSINT monitoring project that was created in 2022, when Russia attacked Ukraine through 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 «Gayun 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 Gayun 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. Therefore, 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 founder of «Hayun», Anton Motolko, immediately after the hack, explained how the information leak occurred and announced the project's closure.
According to estimates by the «Belpol» association of security forces and human rights activists, the names of 9594 people who faced politically motivated criminal cases are known. In total, various political repressions (criminal cases, administrative cases, dismissals, searches) affected about 500,000 Belarusians. Several hundred thousand people were forced to leave the country.
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Во-первых, провал с "Черной книгой Беларуси" (ЧКБ). Спецслужбам ГУБОПиК изначально была не нужна база данных ЧКБ сама по себе — глупо думать, что они искали там списки собственных сотрудников. Целью инфильтрации агента Артура Гайко была оперативная разработка источников. Им нужно было выявить конкретных людей внутри Беларуси, которые сливали информацию. Из-за полного отсутствия верификации со стороны ЧКБ Гайко получил доступ к администрированию и смог деанонимизировать информаторов. По этой же схеме велась разработка Софьи Сапеги: её вели через контроль чатов ЧКБ, а её "якобы парень" Роман Протасевич, судя по всему, в процессе разработки использовался спецслужбами как оперативный вектор для контроля её перемещений и её последующего выманивания под арест.
Во-вторых, "дело Гаюна". Оставить в системе администрирования бота активную, бессрочную ссылку доступа, которую силовики смогли использовать после задержания одного из участников, — это детская ошибка. Спецслужбам даже не пришлось применять сложный хакинг — им буквально оставили открытую дверь. В итоге режим получил готовый массив метаданных и ID-адресов тысяч реальных людей внутри страны, превратив их в легкие цели для зачистки.
Для структур ISANS это уже второй провал стратегического уровня. Спецслужбы режима не делают ничего сверхъестественного — они просто пользуются абсолютным дилетантством "экспертов" демсил в вопросах информационной гигиены, за которое простые беларусы платят годами тюрьмы.