In 1988, Zianon Pazniak made public his researches of NKVD mass executions in the forest of Kurapaty near Minsk.

In 1994, he participated in the 1994 election as the Belarusian Popular Front nominee, gaining 13.1 percent of the vote.

In 1996, Zianon Pazniak fled Belarus, citing a potential arrest by the forces of the Belarusian president Aliaksandar Lukashenka.

On June 19, 1997, Belarus's prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against Pazniak accusing him of incitement to ethnic hatred against Russian people.

[2] Following emigration, Zianon Pazniak is still active in leading the CCP-BPF (Christian Conservative Party of the BPF).

His endeavour to participate in the presidential elections of 2006 was set back when he refused to forward the requisite number of signatures gathered for his candidacy.

[4] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Pazniak called to support the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment.

[5] In January 2023, during the Battle of Bakhmut, he visited the Belarusian fighters of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment on the front line.

Stanisłaŭ Pazniak was recruited into the Red Army in the summer of 1944 and died on the Eastern front in December 1944.