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Arvydas AnusauskasLithuanian politician and historian, Minister of Defense of Lithuania since December 7, 2020
Date of Birth: 29.09.1963
Country:  Lithuania |
Content:
- Arvydas Anušauskas: A Distinguished Politician and Historian
- Academic Career
- Authorship and Publications
- Political Career
Arvydas Anušauskas: A Distinguished Politician and Historian
Early Life and EducationArvydas Anušauskas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He graduated from Vilnius Secondary School No. 34 in 1981 and attended Vilnius Technical School No. 21 from 1981 to 1982. In autumn 1982, he enrolled at Vilnius University, where he earned a master's degree in history in 1989.
Anušauskas served in the Soviet Army from 1983 to 1985. In 1995, he received a doctorate in humanities from Vytautas Magnus University.
Academic Career
Anušauskas was a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History from 1989 to 2000. From 1996 to 1997, he served as an associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Vytautas Magnus University.
In 1998, Anušauskas became the head of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (GRRLC), a position he held until 2007. He continued his academic pursuits alongside this role, serving as an associate professor in the Faculty of History at Vilnius Pedagogical University from 1996 to 2006.
From 2002 to 2007, Anušauskas was an invited associate professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. He also taught as an associate professor in the Faculty of History at Vilnius University from 2002 to 2008.
Authorship and Publications
Anušauskas is the author and co-author of numerous books on history, as well as 14 screenplays for documentary films. He has also published approximately 100 research papers and articles in scientific journals in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, France, and Germany. His first study on Lithuanian intelligence services in the interwar period was published in 1993.
Political Career
Anušauskas joined the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, a center-right party, in 2007. He was elected to the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament, in 2008 and has been re-elected twice since then.
During his first term from 2008 to 2012, Anušauskas served as Chairman of the National Security and Defense Committee. He is currently a member of the National Security and Defense Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Parliamentary Supervision of the Criminal Intelligence Service, member of the Commission on Freedom and National Historical Memory, and a member of several parliamentary groups.
