Date of birth

27 November 1944

Place of birth

Leonava Village, Raseiniai District, Lithuania

Education

1968–1974

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

1963–1967

Technical Vocational College in Kaunas, Diploma in Printing Technology

1962–1963

Night School in Mosėdis

1953–1959

Seven-year School at Mezhdugranka Forestry Farm, Irkutsk Region, Russia

1950–1953

Secondary School in Kretinga

Work experience

1989–2000

Founder and Shareholder, private company UAB Gabija

Founder, Fashion and Poetry Theatre

Founder, training centre Modilina

Founder and Chief Editor, newspaper for children Tukas, magazine and publishing house Gabija

1967–1989

Employee, printing-houses Raidė and V. Kapsukas-Mickevičius

Head, association Žinija

Director, Kaunas Artists’ Home

Chief Editor, newspaper Jaunystė

1959–1962

Worker, Mezhdugranka Forestry Farm in Irkutsk Region

Political career

Member of the Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania

Since 2012

Member, Committee on the Development of Information Society

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures

Member, Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian World Community

Member, Liberals Movement Political Group

2008–2012

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures

Member, Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian World Community

Deputy Chair, Liberals Movement Political Group

Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Since 2006

Member, Deputy Chair, Liberals Movement

2004–2008

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures

Deputy Chair, Commission for Family and Child Affairs

Member, Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian World Community

2000–2004

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Member, Deputy Chair, then Chair, Commission for Ethics and Procedures

Deputy Chair, Commission for Family and Child Affairs

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

Since 1999

Member, Lithuanian Liberal Union