Romualdas Ozolas
Romualdas Ozolas (January 31, 1939 – April 6, 2015)[1] was a Lithuanian politician, activist, writer and pedagogue who taught at Vilnius University.[2] He was a member of the Lithuanian branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1973 to 1990,[2] and a member of the Lithuanian independence movement, Sąjūdis from 1988 to 1990.[2] In 1988, he founded the nationalist Vilnija organization.[3] From 1990 to 1991 he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Lithuania together with Algirdas Brazauskas. He joined the Lithuanian Centre Union in 1993 and became its chairman until 2000.[2] In 1996, he was elected to the Seimas and served until 2000.[2] From 2003 to 2007 he chaired the National Centre Party (NCP), since renamed the Lithuanian Centre Party (LCP) in 2005. He was a winner of the Stasys Šalkauskis prize.[2]
Works
- Stories about Philosophers and Philosophy (1988)
- The First Years of Re-established Independence (1992)
- Within the Sources of Rebirth (1996)
References
- ↑ "Mirė buvęs Seimo narys, signataras Romualdas Ozolas". lrytas.lt. 6 April 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Romualdas OZOLAS, bio on the pages of Lithuanian parliament
- ↑ Leonardas Vilkas, LITEWSKA, ŁOTEWSKA I ESTOŃSKA DROGA DO NIEPODLEGŁOŚCI I DEMOKRACJI: PRÓBA PORÓWNANIA at the Wayback Machine (archived September 28, 2007) (Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Way to Independence: An Attempt to Compare], on homepage of Jerzy Targalski, professor of University of Warsaw