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Stsiapan Putsila

Stsiapan Aliaksandravich Putsila (Belarusian: Сцяпан Аляксандравіч Пуціла, romanizedStsiapan Alyaksandravich Putsila; born 27 July 1998) is a Belarusian journalist, blogger, film director, TV presenter, and opposition figure, mostly known as founder of the media outlet Nexta. The Telegram channel NEXTA Live he founded was at times the biggest Russian-speaking channel in the world.

He currently lives in exile in Poland.

Putsila is the son of Aliaksandr Putsila, a sports journalist and commentator for Belsat TV. According to his own words, Putsila had been interested in video content since his childhood.

Putsila graduated from the Belarusian Humanities Lyceum in Minsk where he shot his first video clips and where he began to engage in journalism by publishing his own newspaper.

In October 2015, Putsila founded the YouTube channel NEXTA, originally as a music channel. The first video that was uploaded was a video clip, "No Way Out", dedicated to the 2015 Belarusian presidential election and massive falsifications. Belarusian KGB immediately demonstrated interest in NEXTA. While Putsila was still attending school, law enforcement made visits to find information about him.

In 2017 the music band broke up and Putilo started using the channel to 'accumulate the trash happening in Lukashenko's Belarus', making weekly reviews of state news. In that time independent media with video were scarce and Nexta soon became popular.

From 2016 to 2019, Putsila attended the University of Silesia in Katowice to study the production of film and television content.

In autumn 2018, he created the Telegram channel NEXTA Live which was subscribed by 2,000 people on the first day. In the same year, Putsila was charged with "insulting the president" because of two YouTube videos. His mother's house was searched, but a few months later, the case was dismissed.

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