Education
Kumets studied at the Linguistic Gymnasium 14 in Minsk, in the International Relations Department of the International Humanitarian-Economic Institute.
Kumets studied at the Linguistic Gymnasium 14 in Minsk, in the International Relations Department of the International Humanitarian-Economic Institute.
In September 2011 he was recruited by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) against his will and forced to leave Belarus. He is a press secretary for the Revolution Through Social Networks civil campaign and a Deputy Chairman of the Integration Bridge foundation in Poland. In September 2009 he became the Deputy Chairman of the Future Movement association.
In the 2010 Belarus presidential election he ran Uladzimir Nyaklyayew’s campaign in the Lyeninski District, and was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Minsk City Council.
The results were apparently falsified. In November 2010 he was expelled, apparently for participating in Nyaklyayew"s campaign.
The European Commission condemned the expulsion, finding it politically motivated. The rector of the institute has subsequently been forbidden from entering European Union territory.
In a meeting on November 10 the head of the institute reportedly promised Nyaklyayew that Kumets would be reinstated in January 2011, but Kumets left the country to avoid prosecution.
When Kumets returned to Belarus in September 2011 a team of Belarusian secret service (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)) agents broke into his apartment. At a Frunzenski District police station Kumets was intimidated and coerced into signing an agreement. Under the agreement he would have to cooperate with intelligence agencies, discr opposing parties, reproduce information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, and provide information about the activities of the Revolution Through Social Networks campaign.
Upon arrival in Poland he was contacted twice a week and asked to report on opposition activities.
The next day he got e-mails threateneing revenge for the disclosure. Kumets now lives and works in Poland and continues his political activities. and he serves as a press secretary for Revolution Through Social Networks.
The campaign regularly organizes protesters in the centers of Belarusian cities, and aims to unite political activists who"ve been coercively recruited by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), "to fight for their constitutional rights and to urge those responsible to justice.".
From 2008 to 2009 Kumets was a member of the European Belarus civil campaign.
