Alexander Taraikovsky (; 26 March 1986 – 10 August 2020) was a demonstrator who died in Minsk, Belarus, during the 2020 Belarusian protests in which the police used tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades against peaceful protestors. He was the first victim whose death was officially confirmed. Death Taraikovsky died on 10 August 2020, in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, near Pushkinskaya metro station during the 2020 Belarusian protests against President Alexander Lukashenko. Taraikovsky's death was recorded as the first death since the beginning of the 2020 Belarusian protests. The police reported that Taraikovsky died due to an explosive device detonated in his hand that he intended to throw at the officers. However, demonstrators said that he was shot by the police. A video that was published on 15 August 2020, showed Taraikovsky empty-handed being shot by the police. On 14 August 2020, Tut.By, an independent Belarusian media outlet, reported that Taraikovsky's death certificate stated massive bleeding from an open wound in the chest as the cause of death. On a leaked audio later on, it was said by the chief of GUBOPiK (a special police unit in Belarus) Nikolai Karpenkov that he was shot by the police. On February 2, 2021, Tut.By got the results of the phonoscopic analysis of the record made public by BYPOL. Talks on the killing of Alexander Taraikovsky and more are on the record. The expert test made it clear that Nikolai Karpenkov's voice is on the record and there are no signs of changes made to it. On 19 February 2021, the Investigative Committee of Belarus acknowledged that Taraikovsky had died due to a penetrating wound (as opposed to the earlier claims of an explosive device) but claimed that the security forces had used non-lethal weapons against him in accordance with the law and refused to bring a criminal case in connection with his death. Calls for Investigation Taraikovsky's partner, Elena German, was able to visit the morgue and see his body four days after he died. German said that she did not believe in the official version of Taraikovsky death provided by the police. German declared that the only Taraikovsky's injury was to his chest and that his hands and feet were "completely intact." She told the Associated Press that she was sure that he was shot by the police and denied the official version that he died from an explosive