Human rights defenders learned that cultural expert

who was detained on January 13, is in pre-trial detention center-1 on Valodarsky, she is indicted under Art.

342 of the Criminal Code ("organization and preparation of actions that grossly violated public order").

According to preliminary information, the trial of Zaretskaya will take place in February.

She will be tried together with the founder of the company Astronim and the festival of marketing and advertising "White Square" Bohdan Karavets, a political prisoner.

• Oksana Zaretskaya is known for her lectures on culture, master classes on etiquette, publications and TV appearances.

  She is the creator of the School of Business Culture and Etiquette, a teacher of cultural studies and aesthetics, philosophy and diplomatic protocol.

  Speaks French and English.

  Co-organizer of the first Vienna Ball in Belarus, the tradition of which is included in the list of intangible heritage of UNESCO.

• Since August 2020, Oksana Zaretskaya has been a member of the Coordination Council, where she was involved in organizing meetings and training local communities, as well as holding lectures-meetings about grassroots democracy and the principles of self-government based on the example of Switzerland, where she lived for more than 10 years.