


Committees of the Seimas
11/19/2024 | Committee on Economics, Member |
Commissions of the Seimas
12/05/2024 | Anticorruption Commission, Chair |
12/04/2024 - 12/04/2024 | Anticorruption Commission, Member |
Political groups of the Seimas
11/14/2024 | Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member |
Parliamentary groups
Date of birth | 29 September 1963 |
Place of birth | Vilnius, Lithuania |
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Education |
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1995 | PhD in Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University |
1982–1989 | Diploma in History, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University) |
1981–1982 | Technical School No 21 in Vilnius (currently Vilnius Vocational Training Centre of Technologies)
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1970–1981 | Secondary School No 34 in Vilnius (currently Sausio 13-osios progimnazija (lower secondary school)) |
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Work experience |
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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 Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy) |
1996–1997 | Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University |
1989–2000 | Research Fellow, Lithuanian Institute of History |
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Political career |
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| Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats |
2020–2024 | Member of the 13th Seimas Member, Committee on National Security and Defence Member, Committee on Legal Affairs Member, Committee on Education and Science |
2020–2024 | Minister, Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania |
2016–2020 | Member of the 12th Seimas Member, Committee on National Security and Defence Deputy Chair, Commission for Parliamentary Scrutiny of Criminal Intelligence Member, Commission for the Cause of Freedom and the National Historical Memory (2018–2020) Member, Commission for National Historical Memory (2017–2018) Deputy Head, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2019–2020) |
2012–2016 | Member of the 11th Seimas Member, Committee on National Security and Defence Member, Anticorruption Commission Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of Members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, 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, Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives), currently Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats
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Miscellaneous |
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Member, International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania appointed by the President of the Republic of Lithuania; volunteer, National Defence Volunteer Forces (1990); Reserve Lieutenant, 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 from 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); Archivist Medal of Honour (2021); Ukrainian State Award - Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd Class (2022); Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union Medal of Merit, 3rd Class (2024). Activities: history of terror, genocide and secret services; scriptwriting for television documentaries Publications: author and co-author of 26 books; author of 14 documentary scripts Most recent 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); Raudonasis teroras (Red Terror) Around 100 studies and articles published in Lithuanian, Polish, Latvian, French and German scientific publications Hobbies: mountain tourism, football Family Wife Lina, sons Martynas and Leonas
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