Alexander Otroschenkov

Alexander Otroschenkov (Аляксандр Атрошчанкаў, Александр Отрощенков, also transliterated as Alyaksandr Atroshchankau[1] or Aleksandr Atroshchenko[2]) is a Belarusian political activist and journalist.

[5][6] The Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations said he felt his treatment was related to the invitation he had received from Amnesty International to travel to Germany.

[11] In 2012 Belarusian authorities prohibited Aliaksandr Atroshchankau to leave Belarus form calling to sanctions against regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka[12] Since 2018 Aliaksandr Atroshchankau cooperates with Belarusian media Reform.by[13] as an author of interviews with experts, diplomats and opinion-makers,[14] also worked as a reporter ar NATO HQ[15][16] He is an expert in iSANS, an international expert initiative established in 2018 and aimed at detecting, analysing and countering hybrid threats against democracy, rule of law and sovereignty of states in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

[17] During the Belarus presidential election campaigns of 2010,[9] he was the press secretary for candidate Andrei Sannikov.

[18] Sannkov's previous press secretary, Oleg Bebenin, had been found hanged; the government claimed it was suicide but his friends suspected otherwise.

[19] On December 19, 2010, Atroshchankau was working as a journalist covering the mass protests of the election results.

[20] At the time of his arrest he was a student of International Law (Международное право) at the European Humanities University.