Vital Rymasheuski
Vital Anatolyevich Rymasheuski is a Belarusian politician who ran for president of Belarus in the 2010 election as the nominee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy. He was a founding member of the BCD.
Early life and education
Vital Rymasheuski was born in Babruysk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, in 1975. He graduated from the Belarusian National Technical University in 1997. He studied in Germany in 1999.Career
Rymasheuski has been a member of the coordination council of the Belarusian Association of Young Politicians since 1996. From 2002 to 2004, he was a member of the presidium of the Belarusian National Council of Youth.Alaksandar Milinkievič's presidential campaign in the Frunzyenski District was managed by Rymasheuski during the 2006 election. Rymasheuski was a member of the Young Front and United Civic Party. He founded Movement for Freedom. He was a founding member and is the co-chair of Belarusian Christian Democracy.
BCD nominated Rymasheuski as its presidential candidate for the 2010 election. He is the co-chair of the BCD. He was beaten and arrested after protesting in Independence Square, Minsk on 19 December 2010. He was convicted for organising actions that grossly violate public order on 30 March 2011, and given a two year suspended sentence on 20 May. U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the sentence given out to Rymasheuski and other opposition leaders. Rymasheuski was abducted by a group of four men on 19 December 2011.
Rymasheuski called for a boycott of the 2012 election.