Lawyer, former Chairman of the Association of Belarusian Students.

After the 2010 elections, he was granted political asylum in the Czech Republic, lives in Prague, working in the private sector. The family remained in Belarus.

On the night of September 8, 2015 he was detained by border guards when he was going to Belarus on a train.  On the same day he was released ‘without changing of the measure of restraint’, which means that the politician is still under travel restrictions.

Born on May 15, 1975 in Minsk in the family of researchers of the BSSR Academy of Sciences.

He graduated from the Belarusian Humanities Lyceum, the Law Faculty of BSU. He did a course at the University of Oxford (UK).

Since 1997, he was engaged in youth exchanges and tourism. He worked at the Belarusian-Polish tourist company Arcadia, which he later headed. He was forced to leave it after the 2004 parliamentary elections. Mr Mikhalevich is an anti-crisis manager accredited by the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus (2006). He is a lawyer of the  Association of the Afghan War veterans and the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (2007-2010).

He was a Deputy of the Pukhavichy district council, coordinator of the Assembly of the local councils (2003-07).

He was a Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front party (2004-08). In 2008, he ran for the party leader, he proposed a program for its reform. He was later excluded for public criticism of the party leadership.

On the eve of the 2010 presidential election of 2010, he worked as legal counsel at the translation and legal services agency. He founded a new social movement – For Modernization.

He was detained at home after the protest on the night after the presidential elections in 2010. He was placed in the KGB jail. He was accused of mass riots. In February 2011, he was released but restricted. A few days later he held a big press conference where he spoke about the tortures in KGB jail, after which he secretly left Belarus. The Belarusian authorities put him on the international wanted list.

He plays squash and table tennis.

Mr Mikhalevich’s wife Milana is an English teacher. He has two daughters: Lesya (2000) and Alena (2009).