[1] According to sources, masked assailants in civilian clothing beat him up, in the yard of his apartment building, in the evening of November 11, 2020, in Minsk.

An ambulance brigade brought from the Central District Department of Internal Affairs (Police Station) to a local hospital.

This name arose after residents of the residential complex in the quarter between Chervyakova, Kakhovskaya and Smorgovsky tract streets painted a mural with "DJs of Change," two DJs who played the Russian pop song called "Khochu peremen" at an event and were subsequently arrested, on one of the walls of a transformer booth.

[13] The yard was often covered with red and white ribbons, symbolising the flag of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, which has become a symbol for the freedom movement in Belarus.

[14][15][16] On November 11, 2020, at about 22:00, six men and 3 women in civilian clothes and in masks arrived at the "Square of Changes" and began to cut off the red and white ribbons placed by local residents.

According to reports, he may have made a remark to which one of the masked people replied to him harshly before pushing Raman to the ground.

[20] On November 16, 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia imposed a travel ban against the kickboxer Dmitry Shakuta and the president of the Belarusian hockey federation Dzmitry Baskau ‘for an unspecified period’ because of their alleged involvement in the killing of Raman Bandarenka.

[22] In January 2021 the International Ice Hockey Federation declared that it opened an independent investigation concerning the involvement of Dzmitry Baskau in this incident.

[23] On the evening of November 12, several thousand Belarusians came to the “Square of Change” to pay tribute to Raman Bandarenka.

[24][25] The Minsk event was ended by the cruel attack of the Militsiya on the people stood at the “Square of Change” to support the dead one.

[35] On November 13, during a meeting with Belarusian and international journalists, Alexander Lukashenko expressed his condolences to the parents of Raman Bandarenka.

"[37] As of November 27, 2020, no criminal case has been instituted on Bandarenka's death, while TUT.BY journalist Katsiaryna Barysevich and doctor Artsyom Sorokin, who reported medical information that the murdered man was completely sober, refuting the words of Alexander Lukashenko and Natalya Kochanova that Bandarenka was drunk, had been detained in connection with the criminal case upon them.

[38] On November 24, the human rights organization Amnesty International named them prisoners of conscience in the Bandarenka matter.

[29][30][31] Boris Haretski, deputy chairman of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, said that the authorities were not fighting the problem, but the media, “They think that if the press does not write about Bandarenka, people will not find out about it.

"[39] On March 2, 2021, Barysevich was sentenced to serve a half-year in prison and to pay a fine for damages in 100 units of base amount for writing on the late Raman Bandarenka, doctor Artsyom Sorokin got two years in prison and a fine in 50 units of base amount.

[40] The chairman of the Viasna Human Rights Centre Ales Bialiatski accused the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Belarus) of the death of Raman Bandarenka.

[42][43] The diplomatic missions of Great Britain,[44] Germany,[45] and the EU[46] in Belarus honored the victim with a minute of silence.

Many foreign media outlets wrote or released stories about the death of Raman Bandarenka (Belsat,[47] U.S. News & World Report,[48] Meduza,[49] RIA Novosti,[50] BBC,[51] Current Time TV,[52] Associated Press,[53] Libération,[54] TVP Info,[55] Washington Post,[56] bne IntelliNews,[57] ČT24,[58] and others[59][60]).

[62][63] The discussion resulted in the adoption of a resolution "on the continuation of human rights violations in Belarus, in particular the murder of Raman Bandarenka", supported by an absolute majority of deputies, calling for a "prompt, thorough, impartial and independent investigation into the death.

"[64] On August 9, 2021, Dmitry Shakuta was put in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the USA.