Rolandas Paksas is a Lithuanian politician who served as the sixth president of Lithuania from 2003 until his impeachment in April 2004. He previously served two terms as the prime minister of Lithuania in 1999,and again from 2000 to 2001,and as Mayor of Vilnius from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. He led Order and Justice from 2004 to 2016 and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019.
Gary Titley is a British Labour Party politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West of England.
Order and Justice,formerly the Liberal Democratic Party was a right-wing national-conservative political party in Lithuania that self-identified as "left-of-centre",at least on economic matters. It had eight members in the Seimas,the unicameral Lithuanian parliament,as of the last election it participated in (2016).
Futbolo klubas Žalgiris,commonly known as FK Žalgiris,Žalgiris Vilnius or simply Žalgiris,is a Lithuanian professional football club based in Vilnius. The club competes in the A Lyga,the top flight of Lithuanian football. The club was founded as Dinamo in 1947. The club's name commemorates the victorious Battle of Žalgiris. Žalgiris has featured many Lithuanian football legends during its history including Arminas Narbekovas,Valdas Ivanauskas,Edgaras Jankauskas and Deividas Šemberas. They have won the Lithuanian Championship 10 times,the Lithuanian Football Cup 14 times,and the Lithuanian Supercup 7 times.
Arminas Narbekovas is a former Lithuanian footballer who played as a midfielder. In 2003,he was selected by UEFA as his country's Golden Player,the greatest player of the past 50 years.
Aloyzas Sakalas was a Lithuanian politician,signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania,and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. Aloyzas Sakalas was also a part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.
Laima Liucija Andrikienė is a Lithuanian politician serving as member of the European Court of Auditors since November 2022.
Eugenijus Gentvilas is a Lithuanian politician,signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania and Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal and Centre Union,sitting with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He was mayor of Klaipėda from 1997 to 2001. In mid-2001,Gentvilas briefly acted as Prime Minister of Lithuania.
Viktor Uspaskich is a Russian-born Lithuanian entrepreneur,politician and former MEP.
Andrius Kubilius is a Lithuanian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He was the leader of the conservative political party Homeland Union.
Lithuanian Footballer of the Year is a football award.
Lithuania is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Lithuania. It is currently represented by eleven Members of the European Parliament.
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis is WHO Special Envoy for the European region,the former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety,a heart surgeon,a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Emanuelis Zingeris is a Lithuanian philologist,museum director,politician,signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania,currently serving as a Member of the Seimas,chairman of its foreign affairs committee,Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies. A Lithuanian Jew,he has been director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum,honorary chairman of Lithuania's Jewish community,and is Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism,that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Waldemar Tomaszewski is a Polish-Lithuanian politician who is also an activist for the Polish minority in Lithuania and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA),Tomaszewski has been an MEP since 2009. He sits in the European Conservatives and Reformists group,of which he is a Member of the Bureau on the group executive.
Arminas is a Lithuanian given name and surname. Feminine form of the given name:Arminė. Notable people with the name include:
Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian liberal politician,diplomat,civil society activist,former member of Seimas,and since 2014,a member of the European Parliament.
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė is a Lithuanian lawyer and politician,Member of the European Parliament and former long-term Minister for Social Security and Labour. Blinkevičiūtėis a member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania since 2006.
Tautvydas Lydeka is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player.
Arminas Urbutis is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Palmer Basket Mallorca of the Spanish LEB Plata. Standing at 206 cm,Urbutis plays as power forward.
