Of course if his profile was public then there's no need for that. By the way, I know way more about Belarus that average HN dweller, and I'd estimate number o

Of course if his profile was public then there's no need for that. By the way, I know way more about Belarus that average HN dweller, and I'd estimate number of "non-government actors supportive of the current Belarus government" same, if not less than government actors. There are dozens of govt-paid internet trolls/experts/bots working literally from KGB office. They are paid reasonably well ($1k+/month) and are constantly under pressure to report any success up the chain of command. Being so overstaffed, they are not as lazy as regular govt workers, and really do organize cross-agency investigative operations to make arrests of people like those who wrote "NO WAR" or "NOT MY PRESIDENT" on a random wall. Same as analyzing ISP logs -- they are overstaffed and pushed, so not lazy to do that.