Stsiapan Putsila

[3] Putsila graduated from the Belarusian Humanities Lyceum in Minsk where he shot his first video clips and where he began to engage in journalism by publishing his own newspaper.

[5] In 2017 the music band broke up and Putilo started using the channel to 'accumulate the trash happening in Lukashenko's Belarus', making weekly reviews of state news.

He faces up to 15 years in jail for organizing "mass riots, accompanied by violence against an individual, arson, destruction of property or armed resistance to representatives of the authorities" and other accusations.

[8] On 5 November 2020, the Investigative Committee of Belarus put Putsila along with Roman Protasevich, the former editor-in-chief of NEXTA on the international wanted list.

[12] In February 2023, a trial opened in a Minsk court against Putsila, Jan Rudik (both in absentia), and detained blogger and journalist Roman Protasevich.

On 21 April 2023, prosecutor Nataliya Sokolova asked for a sentence of 20 years in prison for Putsila on charges related to his role in Nexta.

Stsiapan Putsila at the award ceremony of the Sakharov Prize in 2020