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Date of birth
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30 August 1951
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Place of birth
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Vilnius, Lithuania
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Education
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2002–2004
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International Business School
at Vilnius University, Master’s Degree in Management and Business
Administration
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1978–1982
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Vilnius Higher School of Party Education,
Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences
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1974–1978
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Extramural studies at Vilnius
Pedagogical Institute (currently Lithuanian University of Educational
Sciences), Faculty of the Lithuanian Language and Literature, Bachelor’s
Degree in the Lithuanian Language and Literature
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1958–1969
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Vilnius Secondary School
No 23 (currently Simonas Daukantas Gymnasium in Vilnius)
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Work experience
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1991–1995
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Editor and Publisher of the weekly
Golos Litvy (Eng. The Voice of Lithuania)
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1972–1978
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Interior Restorer, Monument
Restoration Trust
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Political career
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Member of the
Lithuanian Social Democratic Party
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Since 2012
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Deputy Speaker, Member of the
Board of the Seimas
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Chair, Committee on European
Affairs
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Member, Committee on the
Development of Information Society
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Member, Lithuanian Social
Democratic Party Political Group
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Member, Conference of Chairs
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Member, Seimas Delegation to
the Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Chair, Seimas Delegation to the
Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate
of the Republic of Poland
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2008–2012
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Leader of the Opposition,
Member of the Board of the Seimas (2008–2009)
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Member, Conference of Chairs
(2008–2009)
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Member, Committee on European
Affairs
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Member, Committee on National
Security and Defence
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Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation
to the Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Since 2009
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Deputy Chairman, Lithuanian
Social Democratic Party
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2006–2008
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Prime Minister of the Republic
of Lithuania
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2004–2008
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Member, Committee on National
Security and Defence
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2004–2006
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Minister of National Defence of
the Republic of Lithuania
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Since 2003
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Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
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2002–2004
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Special Representative of the
President of the Republic of Lithuania for the Matters Related to Transit
Transportation by the Russian Federation to and from the Kaliningrad Region
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2001–2009
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Deputy Chairman, then Chairman,
Lithuanian Social Democratic Party
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2000–2004
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Chair, Committee on Foreign
Affairs
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Deputy Chair, Committee on
European Affairs
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Member, Committee on National
Security and Defence
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Deputy Chair, Chair, Seimas
Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
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1996–2000
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Member, Committee on National
Security and Defence
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Member, Committee on European
Affairs
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Member, Seimas Delegation to
the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
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1992–1996
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Chair, Committee on National
Security and Defence
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Member, Committee on Foreign
Affairs
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1990–2001
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First Deputy Chairman,
Chairman, Acting Chairman, Member of the Presidium, Lithuanian Democratic Labour
Party
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1990–1992
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Assistant to Algirdas Mykolas
Brazauskas, Deputy of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas
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Sep 1990–Dec 1990
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Secretary, Central Committee of
the Lithuanian Communist Party
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1990
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Member, Lithuanian Communist
Party
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1988–1990
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Assistant for Public Relations
to Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, First Secretary of the Central Committee of
the Lithuanian Communist Party
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1986–1990
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Instructor, Central Committee
of the Lithuanian Communist Party, Division of Culture
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1982–1985
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Instructor, Lithuanian
Communist Party, Committee of Vilnius Lenin District
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