Date of birth

29 September 1963

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

2001

Associate Professor

1995

Doctorate in Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University

1982–1989

Diploma of Historian, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University),

1981–1982

Vilnius Technical School No 21 (currently Administration and Services Department, Vilnius Vocational Education and Training Centre of Technology and Business)

1970–1981

Secondary School No 34 (currently Sausio 13-osios Secondary School) in Vilnius

Work experience

2002–2008

Associate Professor, Faculty of History, Vilnius University

2002–2007

Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University

1997–2008

Director, Genocide and Resistance Research Department, Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

Scientific Editor, periodical Genocidas ir rezistencija (Genocide and Resistance)

1996–2006

Associate Professor, Faculty of History, Vilnius Pedagogical University (currently Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences)

1996–1997

Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University

1989–2000

Research Fellow, Lithuanian Institute of History

Political career

Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Member, Committee on National Security and Defence

Member, Anticorruption Commission

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Chair, Committee on National Security and Defence

Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation

Member, Commission for Parliamentary Scrutiny of Operational Activities

Member, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Since 2007

Member of the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives), currently Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Miscellaneous

Member of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania

National Defence Volunteer Forces (1990); Reserve Lieutenant of the Lithuanian Armed Forces (1995)

Awards: prize in the contest Pragiedruliai held by the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (2007); decoration of honour Lithuanian Diplomacy Star by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012); 4th Class Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana of the Republic of Estonia (2013); Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2018)

Interests: history of terror, genocide and secret services; writing of scripts for the television cycle of documentaries 

Publications: author and co-author of 24 books and 14 scripts for documentaries; recently authored and published books: Teroras (Terror); KGB. Visiškai slaptai (KGB: Top Secret); Lietuvos žvalgyba (Lithuania’s Intelligence); Išdavystė. Markulio dienoraščiai (Betrayal: Markulis’ Diaries); Prezidento žvalgas – du gyvenimai (President’s Intelligence Agent: Two Lives); Aš esu Vanagas (I am the Hawk); Užmirštas desantas (Mission Consigned to Oblivion); some 100 studies and articles published in Lithuanian, Polish, Latvian, French and German scientific publications.

Hobbies: mountain tourism, football