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Members of the Seimas




Arvydas Anušauskas
Seimas 2024-2028
Member of the Seimas from 11/14/2024
Nominated by: Tėvynės sąjunga-Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai
Elected: Kalniečių (No: 15) in the electoral constituency
Contacts Contacts
Room: III-412
Tel: +370 5 209 6878
Position Position
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Biography Biography

Committees of the Seimas

11/19/2024Committee on Economics, Member

Commissions of the Seimas

12/05/2024Anticorruption Commission, Chair
12/04/2024 - 12/04/2024Anticorruption Commission, Member

Political groups of the Seimas

11/14/2024Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member

Parliamentary groups

12/17/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Canada, Member
12/05/2024 Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Ireland, Member
12/05/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Japan, Member
12/12/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, Member
12/05/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, Member
12/12/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the French Republic, Member
12/12/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Italian Republic, Member
12/10/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Nordic Countries (Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland, Kingdom of Norway, Republic of Finland, Kingdom of Sweden), Member
12/17/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Austria, Member
12/12/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Estonia, Member
12/05/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Moldova, Member
12/05/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, Member
12/10/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the State of Israel, Member
12/12/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Swiss Confederation, Member
12/05/2024 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States of America, Member
11/21/2024 Parliamentary Group for Relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan), Member
12/10/2024 Provisional Group for Relations with the Holy See, Member
11/21/2024 Provisional Group of Friends of Kaunas Region, Member
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Date of birth

29 September 1963

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

 

 

Education

 

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)

 

1970–1981   

Secondary School No 34 in Vilnius (currently Sausio 13-osios progimnazija (lower secondary school))

 

 

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 Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy)

1996–1997   

Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University

1989–2000   

Research Fellow, Lithuanian Institute of History

 

 

Political career

 

 

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

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

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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