[1][2][3] Taraikovsky died on 10 August 2020, in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, near Pushkinskaya metro station during the 2020 Belarusian protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.

[citation needed] German asked the Belarusian Human Rights organization for help to facilitate an independent investigation by the international experts of Taraikovsky's death.

[13] On December 21, 2020, the representative of the public initiative "Belarusian People's Tribunal" Igor Makar published the materials of the preliminary investigation.

[17] On 15 August, thousands of Belarusians gathered on Pushkin Square, where Taraikovsky died, to pay a tribute to him, lay flowers to the monument, and observe a moment of silence.

Pavel Latushko, director-general of Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre, musician Lavon Volski, poet Vladimir Neklyaev, singer Max Korzh and Maria Kolesnikova, representative of former presidential candidate Viktor Babariko's headquarters, came to pay tribute to the victim.

When the coffin with Taraikovsky was taken out of the ceremony hall, people knelt down, clapped, showed a sign of victory and shouted 'Glory to the hero!

[20][21] On 2 September, an inscription “We will not forget!” on the sidewalk near the makeshift memorial to Taraikovsky was covered with salt which prompted a spontaneous protest act.

Men in civilian clothing approached him from behind, knocked him down, twisted his arms behind his back, and shoved him in a white minibus without license plates and identification signs.

[25] On 9 September, two Minsk residents were detained when they were trying to restore the inscription near the memorial: a 25-year-old woman, who wrote the first word of the phrase, and a 42-year-old man.

[37] On 16 August 2020, then-Interior Minister Yury Karayeu renounced the initial official version, acknowledging Taraikovsky might have been killed by a rubber bullet.

[38] On September 17, 2020, the European Parliament, in a resolution approved by an absolute majority of MPs, called for an "independent and effective investigation" into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky.

[39] On 19 November 2020, Jim Gilmore, United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, spoke on a three-month suspension of the investigation into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky that it is another sign of “the impunity with which Belarusian security forces pursue their violent crackdown on peaceful protesters.”[40] On 26 November 2020, the European Parliament, in its resolution adopted by an absolute majority of MPs, called for a "prompt, thorough, impartial, and independent investigation" of the killings during protests in Belarus, including Alexander Taraikovsky.

[41] Documentary footage of Taraikovsky's murder by law enforcement officers was used in the "Silence of the Lambs" video by Russian band Nogu Svelo!