Date of birth

30 August 1951

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

2002–2004

International Business School at Vilnius University, Master’s Degree in Management and Business Administration

1978–1982

Vilnius Higher School of Party Education, Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences

1974–1978

Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (currently Education Academy of the Vytautas Magnus University, ), Faculty of the Lithuanian Language and Literature, Bachelor’s Degree in the Lithuanian Language and Literature

1958–1969

Secondary School No 23 in Vilnius (currently Simonas Daukantas Gymnasium)

Work experience

1991–1995

Editor and Publisher of the weekly Golos Litvy (Eng. The Voice of Lithuania)

1972–1978

Interior Restorer, Monument Restoration Trust

Political career

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group

Deputy Speaker of the Seimas

Member, Board of the Seimas

Member, Conference of Chairs

Chair, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Committee on the Development of Information Society

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union

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

Deputy Head, Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Kingdom of Morocco

Member, Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Knesset of Israel

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Board of the Seimas, Leader of the Opposition (2008–2009)

Member, Conference of Chairs (2008–2009)

Member, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Committee on National Security and Defence

Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union

2009–2017

Deputy Chairman, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

2007–2009

Chairman, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

13 December 2007

Co-signatory to the Treaty of Lisbon

2006–2008

Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania

2004–2008

Member of the 9th Seimas

Member, Committee on National Security and Defence

2004–2006

Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania

Since 2003

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

2002–2004

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

2001–2009

Deputy Chairman, Chairman, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

2000–2004

Member of the 8th Seimas

Member, Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Committee on National Security and Defence

Member, Commission for the Development of Information Society

Deputy Chair, Chair, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

1996–2000

Member of the 7th Seimas

Member, Committee on National Security and Defence

Member, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

1992–1996

Member of the 6th Seimas

Chair, Committee on National Security and Defence

Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs

1990–2001

First Deputy Chairman, Acting Chairman, Member of the Presidium, Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party

1990–1992

Assistant to Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, Deputy of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas

Sep 1990–Dec 1990

Secretary, Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party

1990

Member, Lithuanian Communist Party

1988–1990

Assistant for Public Relations to Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party

1986–1990

Instructor, Division of Culture, Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party

1982–1985

Instructor, Committee of Vilnius Lenin District, Lithuanian Communist Party

Miscellaneous

Service in the North Navy of the Soviet Army (1969–1972)

President, Lithuanian Draughts Federation (2000–2004)

Awards: Cross of Officer of the Order of Vytautas the Great; Cross of Commander of the Order of the Cross of Vytis; Cross of Commander of the Republic of Poland; Grand Cross of the Republic of Portugal; Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland; national awards of Estonia, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands; Presidential Order of Excellence of the Republic of Georgia; National Order of Officer of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic; Order of the Polar Star of the Kingdom of Sweden

Participation: presentations at international and Lithuanian conferences, fora and seminars, and higher education institutions

Publications: over 1,500 articles on various political and social issues in Lithuanian and foreign periodicals; book Politinės pastabos laikui: straipsniai, apmąstymai, interviu, įspūdžiai (Political Commentary for the Period: Articles, Reflections, Interviews, Impressions), 1995

Languages: Lithuanian (native), Russian, English

Hobbies: tennis, reading, angling

Family

Married with two children