Vasily Rainchik is a Belarusian musician and composer and also a professor at the Belarus University of Culture, Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

, Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

. He was also the leader of Verasy

Verasy

Verasy was a musical band created in Belarus in 1971. It was created under the Belarusian State Philarmony, Minsk, director and composer Vasily Rainchik...

, an early Belarusian pop music band. Currently he is director of the State Youth Variety Theater of the Belarus University of Culture. Rainchik was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist

People's Artist

People's Artist is a honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, in some other Eastern bloc states , as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modeled after the title of the People's Artist of the USSR....

of Belarus.

On 20th December 2010, Vasily Rainchik was among a few Belarusian artists who supported the use of brutal military force against the demonstration of opposition in Minsk. Vasily Rainchik become known world-wide after these police actions were condemned by European countries and USA.