From Mogilev prison he sends touching children's and philosophical poems.

Reads the diaries of Maxim Horetsky from the imperialist war.

And sometimes he sees "funny" dreams - how he goes to the school library in handcuffs.

"From here you feel the greatest value of family"

Andrey Kuznechyk filed an appeal against the sentence, its hearing is scheduled for August 12.

The Department of Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that Kuznechyk will be serving his term in the enhanced regime colony in Navapolat.

"Among the probabilities is a near return, but making predictions in the current processes in the absence of neutral information is a risky business.

A normal person always hopes for the best," Andrei wrote in a letter to his wife Alesia.

Andrei and Alesia, who have been together for 20 years, have two children: eight-year-old Yanina and two-year-old Matvejka.

Andrey always paid a lot of attention and time to children: he read, played sports, educational games with them, taught them how to ride a bicycle.

Family is the greatest value for him, all of Kuznechyk's colleagues and friends know this.

"From here, you feel the greatest value of the family, and the shortcomings, whims and misdeeds in the past are easily dismissed.

Perhaps psychology has its own apt term and down-to-earth forecast for this.

But I am determined and have plans to create a happy future for us," the political prisoner does not lose his optimism.

"... If anything, I expect Matieka to have time to ride a bicycle seat on rides and slides with ducks.

After all, he won't remember that one season of potlucks."

“I do not feel detached from you.

Every day I think about you, I imagine where you are, what you are doing, I feel Yanina holding her hand, pulling Matieka somewhere, I hear your hugs and kisses."

"It's nice to hear about Yanina's business success and Matvey's communication success.

Thank her for the application."

"I was very touched by Jancha's concern not to write me sad.

Write, of course.

I want to rejoice and grieve together with you.

It would be interesting to watch movies with Yanina and you.

Haven't you tried watching "Harry Potter" or "The Neverending Story"?

Or does she still take sad plot twists to heart, like before?"

Andrei writes in his letters to his family.

Andrey also sent the children a new poem — his version of the relationship between a cat and mice.

"I find interesting things everywhere, in the most unexpected books"

Andrei reads a lot.

I recently reread "The Wild Hunt of King Stakh" by Wladimir Karatkevich.

Subscriptions began to reach him: "LiM", "Zvyazda", "Vechernii Minsk", "Malodost", "Polymya".

"I find interesting things everywhere, in the most unexpected books.

In "Belarusian Soviet Essay" in 1979, he read Maksim Horetsky's diary from the imperialist war.

Sitting in the trenches, the soldiers assumed that 2014 would be "heaven on earth".

If anyone had told me what would happen in 2022, I wouldn't have believed it.

That's right, forecasts are a thankless business," Andrey thinks.

"I was already thinking about not writing about dreams, but you find such parallels that it takes your breath away"

In his letters, Kuznechyk continues to talk about his dreams, which, as Andrey himself admits, "have darkened a little, but they also happen and are funny: how I walked around the school to the library in handcuffs."

On July 9, finally, for the first time, he had a dream that he was riding a bicycle.

"All night I traveled to Minsk, then to the Mazuryn Park in Vitebsk, a kind of mix like that.

True, for the last half hour I was waiting for the hardware store to open, just like in our house, but it was located to the left of the "Kastrychnik" cinema (our wedding was on the right, I remembered this when I woke up).

But overall I liked the dream and it put me in a good mood."

"I was already thinking about not writing about dreams, but you find such parallels that take your breath away, like, for example, with that Veterinary Street (there is also a veterinary academy there), and I thought about it for half a day, because the bus was undoubtedly going to turn there, although it was undoubtedly not there walks

So I dreamed (from the clearest remembered dreams) how I came to Bobruisk, and there were tricolors there, and I don't know what to do (well, this is, perhaps, a premonition of Navopolatsk).

And yesterday I had a normal everyday dream, only I was overgrown, like in the covid year, and completely gray."

Andrey is waiting to be transferred to a colony in Novopolotsk with an enhanced regime.

Most likely, this will happen after the review of the appeal, after August 12.

  • Andrey Kuznechyk was detained when he left his apartment in the evening to ride a bicycle.

    He returned home accompanied by four security guards.

    The apartment was searched, office equipment was taken, and the password to the Radio Svaboda telegram channel was demanded.

  • Andrei and Alesia's children - eight-year-old Yanina and two-year-old Matvey - witnessed their father's arrest.

  • At first, Andrei was accused of petty hooliganism, placed in the Isolation Center for Offenders and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

    He was never released: he was accused of disobedience and sentenced to 10 days twice more.

  • On December 23, 2021, it became known that a criminal case was opened against Kuznechyk and he was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 on Vladarskyi.

  • On May 12, information appeared that Kuznechyk was transferred from pre-trial detention center-1 to Mogilev prison.

  • On June 8, Svaboda journalist Andrey Kuznechyk was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment with imprisonment in a high-security prison on the charge of "creating an extremist organization" (Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code).

    The closed process was held in a few hours, the circumstances of the case are unknown.

  • It should be noted that Radio Svaboda's content was recognized by the authorities as "extremist", and Radio Svaboda itself as an "extremist organization" already after the arrest of Andrei.

    That is, the journalist was convicted for managing something that did not exist at the time of his arrest.