Head of the Belarusian Christian Democracy. He is a businessman; his hobby is planting trees.

Born on March 3, 1975, he spent his childhood in Babruisk. His father is a builder, and his mother – an engineer. His paternal line has gentry roots. “Our family lost patent of nobility only in the Soviet times,” said Vital Rymasheuski.

Civil engineer by training, he graduated from the National Technical University. He worked as an engineer and later engaged in private business.

In the presidential election of 1994 he voted for Zyanon Pazniak. In 1996, he became interested in politics. He was a senior member of various organizations: Young Front, the Belarusian Association of Young Politicians and the Belarusian National Council of Youth and Children’s Public Organizations Rada, Youth of the Christian Social Union.

During the 2006 election he coordinated the campaign of Alyaksandr Milinkevich in the Frunze district of Minsk. After the election, he co-founded the Belarusian Christian Democracy and the Movement For Freedom (although he was an atheist when he came to politics). In the BCD he supervises international and educational departments, oversees the work of the youth organization.

He is one of the leaders of the campaign “The protection of freedom of conscience and religion in Belarus.”

As a member of the BCD he ran for president in the 2010 presidential elections. During the protests in Independence Square on December 19, he was beaten by riot police, arrested and charged with organizing and participating in mass disorder. He was released on the night of January 1, 2011 on bail after he wrote an explanation note to Alyaksandr Lukashenka. His сharges were re-qualified into the organization of activities that breach public order, or participation in them. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

His wife Nastya is a cultural studies scholar. They have a daughter called Eva.