Lepel judge Kruchynina, who repressed medics, a pastor, and rescuers, resigned of her own free will
Lepel judge Iryna Kruchynina, a former Belarusian language teacher, has left the conveyor belt of political trials. In Lepel, and before that in Chashniki, she presided over politically motivated administrative cases. The woman is resigning of her own free will. The reason is unknown.
It became known that Iryna Kruchynina, one of the local judges involved in mass repressions, has resigned from her position as judge of the Lepel district of her own free will. She actively punished Belarusians under fabricated "extremist" articles. And, as she told the local press, she was convinced that she was doing everything correctly.
It was she who sent the Navalukoml pastor to detention, and punished medics from Navalukoml Central District Hospital and a military paramedic.
Already in the spring of 2025, in an interview with the local district state newspaper, Kruchynina openly boasted about her work. When asked by journalists if she had ever wanted to leave the profession due to difficult processes, she stated that she had never doubted the verdicts she issued and was always convinced that she "was in her rightful place and doing everything correctly."
Before becoming part of the judicial system — first in Chashniki, and then in Lepel district — Kruchynina worked as a Belarusian language and literature teacher, but later retrained as a lawyer. She herself told the local press that she loves Ivan Shamiakin's novels very much and reads them "only in Belarusian."
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