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Lithuanian Christian Democracy Party
The Lithuanian Christian Democracy Party (, LKDP) is a right-wing Christian democracy, Christian democratic party in Lithuania founded in 2003. It first acquired a Member of the Seimas in 2024, when Mindaugas Puidokas joined the party and was elected as its chairman. It is a member of the European Christian Political Party. History The party was founded in 2003, after members of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party left in protest of the leadership's decision of unify with the Christian Democratic Union (Lithuania), Christian Democratic Union, another Christian Democratic party. The newly founded party retained the original party's statute and program, but was unable to keep its name and thus adopted a slightly altered one. The party's formation was initiated by former Ministry of Education (Lithuania), Minister of Education Zigmas Zinkevičius and dissident and Catholic priest Alfonsas Svarinskas. They were opposed to cooperation with Kazys Bobelis, chairman of the Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindaugas Puidokas
Mindaugas Puidokas (born 19 March 1979) is a Lithuanian politician, 2020 draft winner and journalist. He was an independent candidate for the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election. Biography He graduated from the Sports University, Kaunas, in 1999. In 1996 won European Youth Basketball Championship together with stars like Šarūnas Jasikevičius. In 1995–1999, he was a correspondent for the newspaper Kauno diena, Kauno žinios, Vytautas Magnus. Since 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016, he is a member of the Lithuanian Seimas. He is one of the 9 candidates for the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election, 2019 presidential election on 12 May 2019. References 1979 births Living people 21st-century Lithuanian journalists Vytautas Magnus University alumni Politicians from Kaunas Independent politicians in Lithuania {{Lithuania-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolchoz
A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz. These were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to emerge in Soviet agriculture after the October Revolution of 1917, as an antithesis both to the feudal structure of impoverished serfdom and aristocratic landlords and to individual or family farming. Initially, a collective farm resembled an updated version of the traditional Russian obshchina "commune", the generic "farming association" (''zemledel’cheskaya artel’''), the Association for Joint Cultivation of Land (TOZ), and finally the kolkhoz. This gradual shift to collective farming in the first 11 years after the October Revolution was turned into a "violent stampede" during the forced collectivization campaign that began in 1928. Name The portmanteau is a contraction of . This Russian term was adopted into other languages as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valdas Tutkus
Lieutenant General Valdas Tutkus (born 27 December 1960) is a Lithuanian former military officer and politician. He served as the Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania from 2004 until 2009, having previously served as an Armed Forces Commander from 2001 to 2004. Biography From 1978 to 1982, he studied at the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School. After 1982, he became a platoon commander. and in 1983 was sent to Afghanistan as part of units of the Turkestan Military District's 40th Army. From 1988 to 1991, he studied at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. By 1991, Tutkus withdrew from the Soviet Armed Forces and became a founding member of the modern Lithuanian Armed Forces. After the restoration of independence, he served in the 'Iron Wolf' Mechanised Infantry Brigade. In 1995, he was sent to the NATO Defense College in Rome. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Military Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to NATO and the European Union. This was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samogitian Party
The Samogitian Party (, ) is a minor ethnic-regionalist autonomist party of Lithuania's Samogitian minority founded in February 2009. History Origins The predecessor to the party, the "Samogitians Were, Are and Will Be" Initiative Group (, ) was founded on 5 July 2007 by five founding members - including former Order and Justice Member of the Seimas and Guinness World Record holder for the strongest beard . The founding of the initiative group was spurred by planned reforms to the administrative system of Lithuania which, according to the group, would erase the definition of Samogitia from law, as well as the group's failed attempts to define their ethnicity as Samogitian in their birth certificates. The group also demanded the Minister of Justice, , to return 30 litas to the group which they had spent on their documents. The initiative group attempted to organize projects in defense of Samogitian ethnicity, such as registering all Samogitians worldwide into a common registry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 European Parliament Election In Lithuania
The 2024 European Parliament election in Lithuania were held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This was the first to take place after Brexit. Background Lithuania (European Parliament constituency), Lithuania will elect 11 Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament. Two out of the eleven incumbents opted not to seek reelection: Aušra Maldeikienė, of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, TS-LKD, and Viktor Uspaskich from Labour Party (Lithuania), Labour, both citing personal reasons for their decision. The remaining nine incumbents, however, sought another term. Among them Andrius Kubilius, Rasa Juknevičienė, Liudas Mažylis, all from TS-LKD, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė and Juozas Olekas, representing the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, LSDP, Petras Auštrevičius (Liberal Movement (Lithuania), LRLS), and Bronis Ropė (Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, LVŽS) expressed their desire to continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Lithuanian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024, alongside a 2024 Lithuanian constitutional referendum, referendum on allowing multiple citizenships. Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda won re-election to a second term. When candidate registrations closed before the election, the had confirmed fifteen viable registrations; of those, twelve proceeded to Nomination rules, collect signatures from the minimum 20,000 voters. Four of those contenders were later repudiated or dropped out, leaving eight on the ballot. A second round was held on 26 May as no candidate received an absolute majority in the first round. This saw Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė facing off in the runoff, a rematch of the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election, 2019 election in which Nausėda had defeated Šimonytė. Nausėda won re-election, defeating Šimonytė in a second-round landslide with 75% of the vote – the largest margin of victory in a free election for any presidenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignas Vėgėlė
Ignas Vėgėlė (born 22 July 1975) is a Lithuanian lawyer and right-wing politician who served as president of the Lithuanian Bar Association from 2014 to 2022, as well as president of the Lithuanian Lawyers' Association from 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the right-wing Christian conservative Lithuanian Christian Democrats from 1994 and served as the party's deputy chairman of the board from 2002 to 2004, and as interim chairman of the board from 2004 to 2006 (replacing Petras Gražulis). Upon the party's merger with the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, he became an independent politician. Biography Vėgėlė graduated from the Vilnius University Faculty of Law in 1994 and gained a doctor's degree in law in the Law Academy of Lithuania in 2002. In 2006, he was awarded the title of docent. He worked at the Lithuanian Lawyers' Association from 1995 to 1996, then - in the law firm "Foresta" from 1996 to 1997 and in the international audit firm "KPMG Lietuva" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member states—30 European and 2 North American. Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949. NATO is a collective security system: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. The organization's motto is . The organization's strategic concepts include Deterrence theory, deterrence. NATO headquarters, NATO's main headquarter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (Lithuania)
The Labour Party (, DP) is a populist centre-left political party in Lithuania. The party was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire businessman and member of Seimas Viktor Uspaskich. History Foundation and first government (2003–2006) In its first electoral test, the 2004 European parliamentary elections, it was by far the most successful party, gaining 30.2% of the vote and returning five MEPs. It joined the European Democratic Party and thus the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Group. At the legislative elections of 2004, the party won 28.4% of the popular vote and 39 out of 141 seats, making it the largest single party in the Parliament of Lithuania. After the election, Labour formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, New Union and Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union. After the 2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, sociologist Vladas Gaidys speculated that the Labour Party supporters had previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Lithuanian Municipal Elections
Municipal elections in Lithuania were held on 5 March 2023 and saw 1,498 members of the municipal councils and 60 mayors elected to office for a four-year term. Election system Size of cabinet in each municipality varies depending on populations. Lowest population municipalities with up to 5,000 inhabitants have 15 seats, while largest municipalities with over 500,000 inhabitants have 51 seats. During mayoral elections, a single candidate must receive over 50% in first round, otherwise the top two candidates will participate in second round. If turnout is less than 40% in specific municipality, the candidate must receive at least 20% of all registered votes to win the title. Changes in regulations New Lithuanian Elections Codecs came into power on 1 September 2022. With new regulations all elected mayors will no longer have a seat in the municipal council and the number of mayoral terms is now capped at a maximum of three.https://www.vrk.lt/naujienos/-/content/10180/5/prad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Party (Lithuania)
The Christian Party (, KP) was a centre-right political party in Lithuania. The Christian Party was founded on 23 January 2010 as a merger of the Christian Conservative Social Union (Krikščionių konservatorių socialinė sąjunga) and the Lithuanian Party of Christian Democracy (Lietuvos krikščioniškosios demokratijos partija). The party had eight members in the . The leader, was elected for the |
