Former lecturer at the Department of Communications at BSUIR. This department is designed to train career officers for the Armed Forces and other security agencies and departments of the Republic of Belarus. Nikolai was initially sentenced to administrative arrest, and then re-arrested as part of a criminal case. He was convicted for three donations that the man made in August 2020.
From the moment he was transferred to the colony, Mikhail served 180 days in a punishment cell, then was placed in a PKT.
As of April 2025, he was transferred to prison regime in Prison No. 4 .
