{"id":547112,"date":"2026-05-31T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=547112"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:13:01","slug":"driver-of-a-country-for-life-motorhome-aliaksandr-aranovich-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/driver-of-a-country-for-life-motorhome-aliaksandr-aranovich-released","title":{"rendered":"Driver of \u201cA Country for Life\u201d Motorhome Aliaksandr Aranovich Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Aliaksandr Aranovich<\/b>, 43, the driver of the motorhome used by <b>Siarhei Tsikhanouski\u2019s<\/b> YouTube channel \u201cA Country for Life,\u201d has been released from prison, <a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/396524\">Nasha Niva reports<\/a>. According to the publication, he was freed in May after serving nearly six years in detention and completing his full sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Aranovich was detained in Hrodna on May 29, 2020, during a signature-collection picket in support of <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b>\u2019s presidential campaign. During the same incident, Siarhei Tsikhanouski and at least 15 other people were detained following what supporters described as a provocation. Initially, a criminal case was opened under Article 364 of the Criminal Code for violence against police officers. After 10 days, while being held at Minsk Detention Centre No. 1, seven participants in the event, including Aranovich, were charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the Leninsky District Court of Hrodna sentenced him to six years in prison for \u201corganising actions that grossly violated public order\u201d and \u201cpreparing to participate in mass riots.\u201d The only evidence cited for the latter charge was an old smoke grenade allegedly found in the attic of his parents\u2019 home in Staryya Darohi during a third search of the property. During the investigation and trial, Aranovich refused to testify and did not admit guilt.<\/p>\n<p>While serving his sentence, an additional six months were added for \u201cdisobedience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A native of Staryya Darohi who worked in freight transportation until 2015, Aranovich joined Tsikhanouski\u2019s team in the spring of 2020 and took the wheel of the motorhome used by the bloggers as they travelled across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Aranovich, 43, the driver of the motorhome used by Siarhei Tsikhanouski\u2019s YouTube channel \u201cA Country for Life,\u201d has been released from prison, Nasha Niva reports. According to the publication, he was freed in May after serving nearly six years in detention and completing his full sentence. Aranovich was detained in Hrodna on May 29, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":547111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a1d3f116a790.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Driver of \u201cA Country for Life\u201d Motorhome Aliaksandr Aranovich Released"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143178],"class_list":["post-547112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547112","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}