Vasily Rainchik
Vasily Rainchik (Василий Раинчик) is a Belarusian musician and composer and also a professor at the Belarus University of Culture, Minsk, Belarus.[1] He was also the leader of Verasy, an early Belarusian pop music band.[2][3] Currently he is director of the State Youth Variety Theater[1] of the Belarus University of Culture.[4] Rainchik was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of Belarus.[1]
On 20 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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 About Youth Theatre
- ↑ "Verasy did not Want to Sing Malinovka", an article in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russian)
- ↑ "Verasy (Russian)
- ↑ "Rainchik Speaks for Decent Pay for Labor of Creative People<sup class="noprint Inline-Template "noprint Inline-Template"" style="white-space:nowrap;">[check quotation syntax]", A BelTA news item