{"id":541600,"date":"2026-05-12T18:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541600"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:43:38","slug":"former-military-officer-returning-from-poland-convicted-on-terrorism-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-military-officer-returning-from-poland-convicted-on-terrorism-charges","title":{"rendered":"Former Military Officer Returning From Poland Convicted on \u201cTerrorism\u201d Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former military officer from Brest <b>Aliaksandr Rudchik<\/b> was tried on charges of participation in terrorist activity (Article 290-3 and Part 2 of Article 290-4 of the Criminal Code), creation of a criminal organization (Part 2 of Article 285), and participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state (Part 1 of Article 361-3). Rudchik\u2019s exact sentence is unknown. He is currently being held in a penal colony, <a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/395016\">Nasha Niva reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Aliaksandr Rudchik<\/b>, 62, was born in Skovorodino in Russia\u2019s Amur region. In 1985, he graduated from the Military Financial and Economic Institute of the Russian Defense Ministry and later served as a lieutenant in Tynda.<\/p>\n<p>According to BelPol, Rudchik lived in Belarus for many years. Since 2003, he worked as an auditor as an individual entrepreneur and closed his business in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, Aliaksandr had been living outside Belarus. In the spring of 2025, he posted photographs from Poland.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown when and why he returned to Belarus. Rudchik\u2019s case was heard by the Brest Regional Court. Under the cited charges, he faced up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former military officer from Brest Aliaksandr Rudchik was tried on charges of participation in terrorist activity (Article 290-3 and Part 2 of Article 290-4 of the Criminal Code), creation of a criminal organization (Part 2 of Article 285), and participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state (Part 1 of Article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a041d9d77d1a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Former Military Officer Returning From Poland Convicted on \u201cTerrorism\u201d Charges"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}