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In late May 2024, the network broke the news that Belarus would be creating its own media platform. It's a YouTube analogue, but only for the media controlled by Lukashenko's regime. Irina Akulovich, Director General of the propaganda agency BelTA, stated this on air on the TV channel Belarus 1. She stated that the order to create the media platform came directly from Lukashenko. At the end of 2023, the Cyberpartisans infiltrated the internal network of the BelTA. This gave us access to internal documents that shed light on the first stages of the project. How propagandists will find a way to bypass the blocking of their videos for inaccurate information and propaganda of violence? How much is the Lukashenko regime willing to spend on this? What well-known IT companies negotiated about the development of the portal for propaganda? Are they preparing to block Youtube in Belarus and what to do if this threat becomes a reality? Read the article or watch the video at the link below. Why Does the Dictator Need His Own YouTube? On Lukashenko's order, BelTA news agency engaged in the project of the Belarusian video service from the beginning of 2023. It will initially feature content from the republican TV channels, Sovetskaya Belorussia and BelTA itself. Then engage the regional media supporting the dictator. You see an internal document that describes the concept of creating such an Internet resource. Its authors argue that the publication of video content on YouTube makes the state-owned Belarusian media segment vulnerable. Materials of the dictatorship-controlled media are regularly blocked and deleted on international Internet resources. Therefore, it is necessary to create your own resource where materials are stored permanently and always available. Over the last few years, YouTube and Facebook have blocked many channels and accounts that openly support the Putin and Lukashenko regimes. Thus, in the 21st year, YouTube blocked the video with the speech of the Belarusian dictator on Victory Square on 9 May. In the 22nd year, the so-called channel of the Union State 'BelRos', which received warnings from the administration for spreading false information and propaganda of violence, was blocked. Of course, on the dictator's own media portal, there will be no such moderation. According to the developed concept, what and when to publish is decided by BelTA employees themselves, while the representatives of TV channels have to coordinate their plans with them. How Many Viewers Does Propaganda Expect? As for the popularity of the portal, which will host all the main state media, in the first year, they expect a maximum of 3 000 simultaneous visitors. And in the second year, they expect no more than 20 000 simultaneous connections and up to 50 000 during socially significant events. As we learned from the working correspondence of BelTA employees, in the first stages of the project discussion, the name of the state-owned video hosting was proposed in Belarusian. However, according to BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich, it has a bad effect on search queries. Perhaps that's why they agreed on the working name ‘Video.bel’. Which IT Companies in Belta Considered Entrusting the Development of Video Hosting? To implement the technical part of the project, it was planned to attract one of the provider companies, which should provide its infrastructure and basic software, and then deal with the maintenance and security of video hosting. To find such a provider, in the second half of the 23rd year, BelTA employees began to send requests to many relevant organisations in Belarus and Russia. Thus, the companies Softec Lab’, ‘Telebreeze’, ‘Ontide Soft’, and ‘Studio Infolio’ were particularly interested in the project. Their representatives sent commercial proposals for the implementation of the media service based on their capabilities. At the same time, BelTA management actively negotiated cooperation on the project with two companies: InDev Solutions OJSC and A1 provider . On the screen, you can see the roadmap for August 2023, developed by InDev Solutions team, which outlines BelTA's work with these two organisations in stages. The full document: ‘InDev Solutions' is an IT Company under the Control of the OAC 'InDev Solutions' was only recently registered in December 2022. However, in the first few months after its launch, it started cooperating with the country's leading universities and the Ministry of Health, as well as becoming a resident of the High Technology Park. The explanation for such rapid success and high trust of the state authorities is not difficult to find. The director of InDev Solutions is Oleg Belyakov, a former employee of the Operational and Analytical Centre, abbreviated as OAC. He is also a member of the working group for the formation and implementation of the State Programme ‘Digital Development of Belarus’ as a representative of the OAC. Moreover, according to the legal address on the InDev Solutions website, the company is located in the same building as the ‘National Traffic Exchange Centre’ under the management of the OAC. Sergey Sudakov, a former employee of the OAC, holds the position of Deputy Director General for Information Technologies at InDev Solutions. The company's leading legal adviser is Yulia Brizinskaya, who also has a decent track record. Previously, Brizinskaya worked in the Interior Ministry, KGB, as a legal adviser to the military information agency ‘Vayar’ of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, as well as in the OAC-affiliated company BeCloud. By the way, since late 2023, Becloud owns a controlling stake in InDev Solutions. So the company in fact is managed by the OAC. Negotiations with A1 The roadmap for the development of video hosting for the republican TV channels also includes the Belarusian subsidiary of the Austrian provider A1. According to the working correspondence of BelTA employees, negotiations on the joint implementation of the project have been held since the early summer of 2023. Namely with the deputy director general for digital platforms and content of A1 Anton Bladik (he has now resigned from this position), who, by the way, previously worked as a chief specialist in the state military-industrial committee of the Republic of Belarus. According to an internal BelTA document, which you can see on the screen, specific costs and plans were even discussed. Thus, the launch and maintenance of the video hosting for a year was estimated by the representatives of ‘A1’ at 600-700 thousand US dollars, if we take a ready-made solution based on the software ‘Voka’. The full document: However, the costs were already significantly adjusted upwards after a month of discussions. BelTA employees estimated the amount needed to launch and operate the media platform in the first year at about $1.5-2 million, and the annual costs starting from the second year of operation at about $1 million. You can see below one of the variants of such calculation. The full document: At that time, in November 2023, negotiations with A1 on the development of a Belarusian video service were so close that they directly discussed bypassing open tender procedures. You can see below a retelling of the negotiations with A1 in the working chat of BelTA employees. According to this message, both sides are dissatisfied with the fact that any participant can formally win the open tender and get the state order. The representatives of A1 offered their options to bypass these procedures. Judging by the data from the site of public procurement, in February and March 2024 BelTA attempted to hold open tenders for video broadcasting services. Based on the data on the same portal, it is not difficult to establish that the company ‘A1’ participated in tenders. The well-known provider was competing with Mediatek Ltd, whose bid was rejected by the procurement commission. Since this summer BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich confidently promised that the state video portal would start working at the end of August, we can assume that the contractor for the project has been found after all. Are They Preparing to Switch off Youtube in Belarus? At this time, we are not aware of any documents or plans that would support this. But we cannot completely deny this possibility. Belarusians have already faced problems with loading the service on New Year's Eve. We would like to remind you that at that time Youtube did not load for 20 minutes in Belarus. The easiest way to fight such restrictions is to use VPN services. Among other things, modern technologies allow you to bypass even the blocking of VPNs themselves. According to our assessment, the development of a separate video resource for Lukashenka's propagandists is mainly aimed at avoiding blocking of their content. But whether Belarusians will use such a site en masse is doubtful. Write in the comments on our channel what you think about it. Subscribe to our channel in Telegram, where we publish other investigations on the data obtained from the internal networks of the regime.

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The political repression within the walls of the country's leading university - Belarusian State University (BSU) - which has been going on for several years, provoked an attack by Cyberpartisans on its internal network. More than 3 terabytes of data have come into our possession: documents, correspondence, and audio recordings that shed light on the real situation at the university. The first part of the investigation, in which we revealed the background of repression in BSU and published real statistics of dismissals and expulsions for political reasons, is shown here. Now we will clearly show on the example of the Belarusian State University what the system of higher education in Belarus has turned into under dictator Lukashenko, as well as reveal some secrets of the university management, which have been carefully hidden so far. Rector Korol: surveillance and repression at BSU Total surveillance of students and teachers by special services, constant intrigues and manipulations have become the norm in the BSU leadership, de facto appointed by Lukashenko's administration not for personal or academic merit, but on the principle of loyalty to the system. Thus, since 2017 Andrei Korol has been rector of BSU. After the rigged 2020 elections, the BSU rector openly demonstrated his commitment to the dictatorship. In September of that year, Andrey Korol issued an official statement in which he promised that there would be no dismissals and expulsions for political reasons at the Belarusian State University. However, since then hundreds of teachers and students have left the university because of repressions. Three-room Apartment In Minsk For Political Purges In the University Andrey Korol, who felt he had shown enough loyalty to the regime, decided to ask for preferential treatment. So in 2021, he applied for the construction of a three-room flat in the neighbourhood of Lositsa-7. But he received a refusal. In an official letter, the deputy head of the Central District Administration explains that a three-room flat is not provided for a family of two people, given the shortage of housing construction in Minsk. Nevertheless, this does not stop Korol, and to get the desired "three-room apartment" in a new house, he uses his connections. He appeals also to the then Minister of Education Igor Karpenko to send a letter on his behalf with a request, as they say, "to the very top". Here is one of the versions of this letter addressed to Alexander Lukashenko, in which the Korol cites political purges at the university among his achievements. BSU has a consistent personnel policy. It is aimed at employing only persons who fully share the ideology of the Belarusian state. The educational influence of the legal nature on the collective of students is carried out. 96 students who organised and participated in protest actions and events were expelled. Disciplinary penalties were imposed on 166 students, and 288 explanatory notes were taken. Rector's Mistresses And Admirers One can only guess why the rector of pre-retirement age without children needed a three-room flat in Minsk so badly. Especially, since the relationship with his wife leaves much to be desired. Judging by the correspondence in Viber, the rector had at least 7 admirers and mistresses in the last 4 years. Their names and photos are presented below. Some of Andrei Korol's mistresses are graduates or former employees of BSU. For some of them the relationship at the workplace happened at the same time. The women did not know about each other, but some of them complained about the rector's lack of attention and time for them. Andrei Korol has the closest relationship with former BSU graduate Ekaterina Bushmanova, who graduated from the university in 2018 with a degree in Modern Foreign Languages (teaching). Ekaterina is married to Ukrainian citizen Viktor Bushmanov and is a mother of triplets. She is also well acquainted with the Korol's wife. Their families even periodically spend time together. Which does not prevent the couple from cheating on their spouses far from the first year. Secret correspondence lovers conduct in a joint document through the service Dropbox. Below are fragments of this correspondence. In correspondence with mistresses and admirers, Korol often touches on the topic of politics. He chooses like-minded women who also support Russia's war in Ukraine. Below is a fragment of correspondence with Ekaterina Patrinina, who lives in Russia. Korol periodically sees her during his trips to Russia. We felt it our duty to dwell on these personal topics, as they partly reveal the duplicitous and deceitful character of Andrey Korol. He not only deceives his wife but also hides his mistresses from each other. Although some even introduce each other, for example, Ekaterina Patrinina once at the request of the Korol helped Ekaterina Bushmanova to get to an elite Moscow clinic, when she had serious complications with her kidneys in the period before childbirth. We consider it our duty to reveal the BSU rector's personal secrets, because after our attack on the university's internal network in the summer of 2023, political repressions within the university continued. The rector did not draw the proper conclusions, and continued to personally participate in political purges. It is also a clear warning for other managers and officials of the regime facilities who support the dictatorship. You think it's easy to write off our break-in as an "inside job" and get away with it? Continue breaking people's lives as if nothing had happened? Don't get your hopes up. Cyber partisans are not only about hacking and cyberattacks. We also do intelligence and data analytics. We know what you talk about with your lovers and spouses, how you spend your free time, how you berate your coworkers and superiors, how you try to cheat for personal gain for the regime you serve. And if you commit crimes against the Belarusan people, don't expect your secrets to remain secrets. Sabotage of questionnaires from Lukashenko's administration at BSU Andrey Korol not only asks for preferential treatment from his superiors allegedly for ideologically faithful service but also does not miss a chance to deceive the system he works for if it is profitable for him. The story with the questionnaire launched on the initiative of Lukashenka's administration is so indicative. In July 2023, the BSU rector received an order to conduct a survey among the teachers of the university, including the assessment of his work. However, Andrey Korol was not satisfied with the survey questions and perceived it as an attempt to provide grounds for his dismissal, which was already actively rumoured in the university environment at that time. On one of the computers on the BSU intranet, we found saved audio recordings that were probably left on the voicemail of one of the employees and saved to compromise colleagues. The collection of dozens of audio recordings sheds much light on the "inner kitchen" of university management. Thanks to these recordings, in the video part of the investigation we revealed in detail how Andrey Korol decided to sabotage the questionnaire and conduct the survey only among the teachers who support him. Thus, Lukashenko's administration got only those results that were convenient for the rector of the university. When vote rigging is the norm for officials in the country, such a situation is not surprising. Andrey Korol is just acting according to the proven scheme of the regime, which he supports. “Purges” Among Their Own BSU rector sent the results of the survey to Lukashenko's administration, according to which more than 78% of teachers are satisfied with the relationship with the university administration, while more than 90% of employees are satisfied with the moral and psychological climate. However, in the video part of the investigation, we published audio recordings, which shed light on a completely different situation at the university, including among the supporters of the dictator. Thus, Anna Bakun - vice-rector for educational work and social issues - shared her complaints about disrespect to her and negligent, in her opinion, attitude to work issues among her colleagues. We have also published an audio recording, in which she tells how the Lukashenko administration decided to get rid of her at BSU by an unspoken order and to do it in the same way as she does with students - through pressure and manipulation. Since 2020 Anna Bakun has been actively involved in political repression against BSU students. Among other things, she took part in the so-called "councils on prevention of offences", where students were intimidated from leaving the BRSM and participating in protests. However, 3 years later these "merits" have already been forgotten, and Lukashenka's administration decided to get rid of Bakun. Rector Andrey Korol plans to fire the deputy head of the department for educational work Yegor Podoliak, who publicly supports the dictatorial regime, so he can't be easily dismissed for political reasons, according to the same principle. We published an audio recording, where the BSU rector himself talks about his idea, in the video part of the investigation. On it, Korol shares how he plans to give Podolyak a task he can't cope with so that there would be a reason for dismissal. We have also published recordings in which the BSU rector speaks unflatteringly about Yevgeny Haruka — head of the department of expert and analytical work, who previously spied for him on students and teachers, including in protest groups, and then asked for a raise and thought about changing jobs. Andrei Korol calls Haruk a "scoundrel", " a louse", "bastard", "and scatty", and shares plans that he is going to publicly discredit him in front of the leaders of BISR (Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies) so that he would not be hired in the new structure. In addition, he accuses his subordinate of possibly leaking information about the BSU problem areas to Lukashenka's administration. By the way, in December 2023, the BSU received a request from Lukashenko's administration to dismiss Yevgeny Haruk so that he could take the position of the head of the department of internal political analysis at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (abbreviated as BISR). However, in order to make sure that the employee would not be hired by the state structures, the rector made sure to have a bad characteristic against Haruk. In the video part of the investigation, we also published other recordings, where Andrei Korol: says that he intends to collect dirt on the dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Sergei Bosyakov, who participated in political repression at BSU, so he can't be simply dismissed on policy grounds. tries to organise surveillance of deans after hours with the help of special services. openly insults other BSU employees. The rector is not shy about his colleagues: "asshole," "slut," "louse" are just a few examples of the characterizations he applies to people who work with him. In addition, we also provided an audio recording in which the KGB officer Yaroslav Cherkassky (who holds the position of vice-rector for security and personnel at BSU), tells how the Minister of Education apologised to his KGB supervisor for allowing Pavel Bychkovsky, the chief specialist for scientific and scientific-innovation activities of the enterprise "Unitekhprom BSU", into the expert council. At the same time, new appointments at the university to replace dismissed or resigned staff sometimes cause at least some confusion. In February 2023, for example, Alexei Belyaev was appointed dean of the journalism faculty by order of the rector. But just a few days later, an official complaint was sent to Andrei Korol from the faculty, stating that the new employee has nothing to do with journalism, either by education or labour activity. The authors of the complaint allege that Belyaev embezzled other people's work to obtain a position. By the way, Alexei Belyaev is still the dean of the Faculty of Journalism. The BSU administration did not pay attention to the collective complaints of the teachers. It doesn't matter that Belyaev has appropriated other people's works, but he writes a column in the ideologically correct newspaper "Sovetskaya Belorussia" and is a member of the pro-governmental party "Belaya Rus". With such a norm of relations in the team, it is not surprising that in 2023 there were reasonable rumours that Andrey Korol will be removed from the post of BSU rector. He suspected the current Minister of Education Andrei Ivants of this initiative, which he did not fail to complain about in messages via Vyber to Natalia Kochanova. Let's Summarize The situation with mass political dismissals and behind-the-scenes intrigues that have developed at the Belarusian State University is, unfortunately, just an example of what the whole education system has become under dictator Lukashenko. When educational institutions are turned into regime facilities with constant surveillance, denunciations to the KGB and authorities, and mass political dismissals. The Сyberpartisans felt it was their duty to show the true face of this system and make its secrets public. After we attacked the BSU internal network and the publication of some data from there in July 2023, the university administration issued a denial, citing a sudden technical failure. The unfortunate idea belongs to the head of the BSU Information Technology Centre, Viktor Kochin. The same stance will likely be taken by the university administration with regard to the current investigations. Publishing personal information and secret machinations of the BSU management was a consequence of the fact that instead of educational and scientific activities the university continues to engage in political purges. We remind you that any structure, enterprise or organisation that commits crimes against the Belarusian people in support of dictator Lukashenko becomes a legitimate target for Cyberpartisan attacks. Subscribe to the Cyberpartisan channel in Telegram to learn about new cyberattacks and investigations!

Numerous denunciations, brutal arrests, mass dismissals and expulsions for political reasons have now become the norm within the walls of higher education institutions in Belarus. In this material, we will show in detail on the example of Belarusian State University (BSU), which is considered to be the leading higher education institution in the country. Outraged by the politically motivated public harassment conducted by the leadership of this educational institution, the Cyberpartisans infiltrated the BSU's internal network in the summer of 2023. We have received a lot of materials that allow us to expose the "internal kitchen" of the university. Reports to the police department, prosecutor's office, Lukashenko's administration on "political" dismissals and expulsions, surveillance of teachers, violations of moral norms, intrigues, and hypocrisy even towards their own "associates". We will systematically review the most interesting moments of BSU's underside in the period from 2020 to 2024. We will use this university as an example of what the country's higher education institutions have become under Lukashenko's dictatorship. The picture that emerges in BSU is repeated, regretfully, in other Belarusian universities. Briefly About BSU And Protests In the Academic Environment Belarusian State University was established by the decision of the BSSR government in 1919. Today it is considered to be the flagship of higher education in Belarus and the largest scientific centre in the country. The structure of BSU includes 16 faculties, 11 educational institutes and teaching centres; 177 departments; 6 research institutes, production enterprises and museums; and 1 scientific and technological park. The number of students in the BSU complex according to official data is more than 20,000 people. The staff includes more than 3000 teachers. It is not surprising that such a developed academic community did not stay on the sidelines of the 2020 protests in response to the rigged presidential elections in Belarus, political repression and violence against peaceful citizens. The first public appeals on behalf of BSU alumni and students for fair elections appeared as early as 9 August 2020, on the actual voting day. Many BSU staff and students also joined the protest that swept across the country in response to the killings and torture in the first days after the rigged election. Students and teachers united to organise strikes and protests. On 12 August, more than 1,000 people signed a petition to BSU Rector Andrei Korol, asking him to publicly call for an end to violence against civilians. In response to public pressure, Andrei Korol released an appeal on 14 August, where he assured that there would be no expulsions and dismissals in BSU for participation in peaceful actions. Now we will show how many students and teachers were actually dismissed and expelled for political reasons at the Belarusian State University in the period 2020-2023. Real Statistics Of Dismissals And Expulsions In BSU For Political Reasons Below is an unofficial letter from the university management to Viktor Shaban, prosecutor of Maskouski district of Minsk. According to this document, 140 students were expelled from BSU for political reasons since 9 August 2020. In addition, 50 employees were fired, two received remarks and three received reprimands. All this is openly written in the report sent from the university to the dictator's penal structures. However, even these figures do not reflect the full picture of political repression at the university. Many more teachers were forced under pressure to leave by mutual agreement. Below are the dynamics of BSU staffing indicators from 2018 to 2022. As you can see, until 2020, the number of employees was smoothly growing, and then began to decline rapidly. Only for 2 years more than 450 people left their positions. We also found saved audio recordings on one of the computers on the BSU intranet. Some of them were probably left on an employee's voicemail, others may have been secretly made to compromise colleagues. This collection of dozens of audio recordings helped us to get a real picture of what was going on inside the university. Among the saved materials was a recording of the rector, Andrei Korol, stating that no less than 500 employees of the university had fallen victim to the political purge. Of course, officially such statistics are carefully concealed. BSU Rector Helps the Police Arrest Students On 22 October 2020, at an online meeting with BSU students, the university management stated the following: "All the governing bodies of the university are doing everything to ensure that the impact of the political and social crisis on the educational process is minimised. By the decision of the BSU Council on 18 August it was determined that BSU should stay out of politics and political events in our country, which are currently taking place." However, in reality, BSU Rector Andrei Korol personally reported to Andrei Galenka, an acquaintance of the Interior Ministry, about where and how the student actions were taking place. Below you can see their messages in the messenger Viber. Those Who Are Still Involved In the Repression Of BSU Students And Professors In the second part of the investigation, we will elaborate on the two-faced character of the BSU rector, which manifests itself even among his superiors, his colleagues and close people. And now we will show the employees, who helped Andrei Korol to launch a whole repressive campaign within the walls of the university. All the people whose names and photos you see below, as well as several other BSU employees, have been engaged in intimidation, pressure, surveillance, political dismissals, expulsions and denunciations of students and teachers to the regime's law enforcement agencies for 4 years since 2020. With their complicity, the main activities of the university are supervised personally by the Chairperson of the Council of the Republic Natalia Kochanova, as well as by the staff from Lukashenko's administration and the KGB. After all, Lukashenka's son Nikolai (at the Faculty of Biology) and grandson Alexander (at the BSU Institute of Economics) are currently studying at the university. By all possible means, the supporters of the dictatorship are trying to prevent free thought and democracy at the university. From special services, authorities, and structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they openly receive orders that violate the law. Below is an official request from the GUBOPiK by the deputy head of the department, Dmitri Kovacs, who demands to prevent the university from admitting the applicant on the sole grounds that he participated in peaceful protests and left comments online against the dictatorship. Close co-operation with the punitive structures went so far as to make so-called penitential videos at the university. One of them was published on 23 May 2023 on the official page of the BSU Faculty of Law on Instagram. The video of the student being forced on camera to confess to allegedly unlawful acts was a violation of basic human rights within the walls of the university. It put the university on the same level as Lukashenko's punitive structures, which in the same way under pressure and violence force people in a non-procedural form to incriminate themselves on camera. Such actions provoked an attack of Cyberpartisans on the BSU internal network. We extracted more than 3 terabytes of data, some of which are presented in our investigation. Political Repressions In BSU 2023-2024 Unfortunately, the repressive campaign at the university has not stopped to this day. Employees continue to be dismissed for political reasons, and those who remain are constantly monitored via social media. In the investigative video, we included fragments of the BSU rector's interrogation of two teachers behind closed office doors on 22 August 2023, during which he forced the employees to write explanatory statements about their political stance and their presence in places of mass protests. We have also published an audio recording from 2024, in which the KGB officer Yaroslav Cherkassky, who also holds the position of vice-rector for security and human resources at BSU, says that two university employees should be dismissed for political reasons. Moreover, this should be done by a certain employee, whose loyalty to the KGB is doubted, as he had not previously participated in the ideological purges of the university. Since systematic violations of the rights of employees and students in BSU do not stop, we believe that we must publish the secrets of the university management that we know and expose its "internal kitchen". The background of the country's leading university, which under Lukashenka and his appointees has been transformed into a regime institution, will be covered in the next part of the investigation.

The first attack on Grodno Azot's network involved planting viruses which were scheduled to be triggered. Yesterday, the first series of such "bookmarks" worked, which should have deleted data from the PCs of many hundreds of employees, the document management system, the domain controller, and other servers. According to our information, there was panic at Azot. The dispatcher ordered urgent shutdown of PCs throughout the company. Too late 🫢 If our demands for the release of political prisoners are met, all bookmarks will be neutralised and deleted. Our goal is to make these political prisoners the most expensive in the world for the Minsk junta. Vitya, the choice is yours. P.S.: Our source in the security lab tells us that after the first hack, they sent a whole team of security people to Azot. As it turned out, they fell for the leftover baits- decoys-generators of strong activity, like little children. They got excited and didn't look for our real "surprises" 🎁

For those who didn't know, together with the database of the KGB website we put online the denunciations sent to the KGB via the portal from September 2014 to August 2023. Now the complaints of KGB "informers" are in the public domain, as well as offers of co-operation from foreign citizens.

More than 8,600 KGB employees have been added to the bot @facement_bot. They include both current and former employees of different positions. 😂 The biggest fail of the KGB agents! Send a good quality photo with single face to the bot, and if there is a KGB officer in the image, the bot will return information on them. 🤝 Thanks to everyone who participated in the development of the bot and helps us with donations. You make our work of defeating the regime possible.

We do not. We never have. Because we are working to save the lives of Belarusians, not to destroy them. Unlike the Lukashenko regime. But we did say before that an attack on the BelNPP is technically possible. As long as there is a dictator in power, under whom they would rather switch to paper than add proper defenses against cyberattacks.

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Grodno Azot is one of the largest enterprises in Belarus, a state-owned producer of nitrogen compounds and fertilisers. Since 2020, the management of this enterprise has engaged in political repression of employees and circumvented economic sanctions imposed by Western countries for supporting Lukashenko's regime. The systematic violation of human rights at Grodno Azot instigated a Cyberpartisan attack on 17 April 2024. 🔥 Operation of the boiler shop was disrupted. 🔥 Internal mail, document flow and hundreds of workplace computers were encrypted. 🔥 Backups (backups) of databases, servers, mail, document flow were destroyed. 🔥 Gained access to security systems and surveillance cameras. 🔥 The official website of the company was hacked. How It Started The Cyberpartisans were in the Grodno Azot network for several months. We conducted reconnaissance, obtained the information we needed and prepared the attack. For a long time, we studied the production processes of the enterprise so that our intervention would not harm ordinary employees and residents of Grodno. During our time on the web we found quite a few interesting documents. For example, below is a document drawn up on behalf of the General Director of Grodno Azot - I. V. Lyashenko - which officially confirms the Cyberpartisan attack on BelZhD in February 2022, right after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At that time, our attack disrupted the movement of military echelons of Russian invaders. But it also affected other processes in the country, for example, it suspended the shipment of wagons with fertilisers in the sub-sanctioned enterprise "Grodno Azot". It is a rare case when our attack and its effectiveness is confirmed by the enemy side. We Managed an Entire Enterprise Over time, we penetrated the internal circuit of the Grodno Azot network - subnetworks of production control. In this circuit it is possible to stop any workshop or production line. Even completely stop the operation of the enterprise. Of course, we did not consider such an option, as it could lead to a real catastrophe and harm civilians. The Cyberpartisan participant responsible for this operation explains: It was lucky that it was us who hacked and not some malicious people who could have caused a disaster. All production lines rely on energy, hot+cold water and steam. These products are "produced" in the boiler plant and the GTPP (gas turbine power plant). All of this was under our control. The Cyberpartisans deliberately disrupted only the boiler shop, as we knew there were backup sources for power generation, and they would be able to take advantage of them. We had a good understanding of the internal processes of the plant and knew that this would not lead to dangerous consequences for people. But at the same time, we demonstrated our capabilities that we could really manage the operation of Grodno Azot. Under Lukashenko, enterprises are under weak cyber defence, as there are not enough good specialists who would agree to work for the regime. This is a major security risk for all citizens of the country. As one of the private cyberattackers shares: The regime is protecting this network like a barn rather than an explosive enterprise. We have covered this issue with the BelNPP before. But the regime has not taken any significant steps to improve the security of such facilities. Now we have covered this topic again, more vividly. How the Attack Went When we had sufficiently conducted cyber reconnaissance and obtained all the information we needed, we decided to launch an attack on Grodno Azot and encrypt all possible data. By 9 a.m. on 17 April, the Cyberpartisans had encrypted hundreds of work computers. According to our calculations, between 500 and 1 thousand machines should have been infected. That's when we started wiping the data. In total, the company lost dozens of terabytes of information: databases, their backups, mail, document flow, etc. We wiped backup copies of the data. Since the work of the internal network was seriously disrupted, the employees of the enterprise realised that an attack was being carried out. They even wrote about it on the official channel even before we reported the hack ourselves. We also read internal correspondence of employees, where they discuss our attack, literally "live". After the cyberattack was completed, we decided to disrupt the official Grodno Azot website as well. It is in fact only a showcase, the hacking of the site does not really interfere with the work of the enterprise. It was done to a greater extent so that anyone could see at least some of the results of our work. Usually, our subscribers are happy about it. But the most serious consequences are, of course, the attack on the internal network of Grodno Azot, and the company has already recognised it very well. The cyberattack on Grodno Azot is not only a punishment of the company's management for years of political repression of its employees, but also a warning for other enterprises and organisations in Belarus, which are also involved in similar activities. We clearly show that in one form or another, payback for the mockery of the Belarusian people can catch up (and will catch up sooner or later) everyone who participates in it. Today it is "Grodno Azot", tomorrow it may be the management of any other enterprise, institution, organisation, which violates the basic human rights to freedom of speech and expression in the Republic of Belarus.

4 years of intimidation, repression and politically motivated dismissals on the conscience of Grodno Azot management. 🤬 They get our own cyber sanctions for this. Web Archive Disruption of website, boiler room, mail, databases, computers, servers, document management are just a small part of our capabilities. If the repression is not stopped, we will use more. This is also a warning to the management of other enterprises, institutions and organisations. If you are engaged in political repression in Belarus, you become a legitimate target for Cyberpartisan attacks. Tick-tock. ⌛️

Since 2020, Grodno Azot management has been involved in harassment, pressure and political repression of the company's employees. We have not forgotten the punitive raids, denunciations and mass dismissals. Now it is your turn to pay the price. 👊📛 🔥 Encrypted internal emails, workflow and hundreds of work PCs. 🔥 Backups of databases, servers, mail, document flow were destroyed. 🔥 Security systems and surveillance cameras hacked. 🔥 The work of boiler shop was disrupted. 😎 The stakes are rising. To recover the data, the dictator will have to release ALL political prisoners of Grodno Azot + 75 political prisoners with the worst health condition (at our discretion). Now we worked carefully and used only a small part of our capabilities. If you refuse, next time the stakes will be even higher.