Valery Kavaleuski was born in the village of Bieraznoje in the Palesse area in southern Belarus in 1976 and graduated from the Berazhnoe Secondary School in 1993.
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Valery Kavaleuski obtained a specialist degree in international relations in the Belarusian State University in 1998, an Executive MBA at Kozminski University in 2008, and a Master of Science in Foreign Service degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University in 2014.
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Valery Kavaleuski worked in the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2006.
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From 2001 to 2004, Valery Kavaleuski was seconded to the Belarusian embassy in the United States as first secretary to work on political issues.
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Valery Kavaleuski resigned from diplomatic service during the Jeans Revolution, when Lukashenko remained in power for a third term after the disputed 2006 Belarusian presidential election.
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In 2015, Valery Kavaleuski was Director for Strategy and Public Affairs of the Belarusan-American Association.
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In January 2011, Valery Kavaleuski was arrested by the Belarusian KGB for supporting Andrei Sannikov, who had been a leading candidate in the 2010 Belarusian presidential election.
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Valery Kavaleuski spent 12 days of administrative arrest in Okrestina Detention Centre and three days in a KGB prison.
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On 16 September 2014, Valery Kavaleuski participated in a protest in Washington, DC near the Belarusian embassy, calling for information about Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krasouski, who were forcefully disappeared in 1999 in Minsk.
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Valery Kavaleuski was thrown to the ground during a protest on 22 November 2020 and detained for several days.
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Valery Kavaleuski joined Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in exile in Lithuania in December 2020.
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In November 2021, in Canada, Valery Kavaleuski discussed the Belarusian situation with Amnesty International, The Canadian Press and the Halifax International Security Forum.
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In July 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Valery Kavaleuski headed Tsikhanouskaya's office in Kyiv.
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Valery Kavaleuski negotiated conditions for allowing Belarusians supporting Ukraine to stay in Ukraine with Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman.
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Valery Kavaleuski was appointed to the Belarusian United Transitional Cabinet, a government-in-exile, on 9 August 2022.
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Valery Kavaleuski referred to differences on strategic approaches and tactical matters among his reasons for resigning.