Vasil Rainčyk ( be, Васіль Раінчык), also Vasily Rainchik, is a Belarusian musician and composer and also a professor at the Belarus University of Culture,

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. He was also the leader of Vierasy, an early Belarusian pop music band. Currently he is director of the State Youth Variety TheaterAbout Youth Theatre
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news item Rainčyk was awarded the honorary title of

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of Belarus.On 20 December 2010, Vasil Rainčyk was among a few Belarusian artists who supported the use of brutal military force against the demonstration of opposition in Minsk
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He is married to Iryna Ćviatkova.

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