Valdas Adamkus has been the president for most of the time since 1998.

The cabinet of Algirdas Brazauskas resigned on May 31, 2006 as President Valdas Adamkus expressed no confidence in two of the Ministers, formerly party colleagues of Brazauskas, over ethical principles.

* 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, former President

* November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania

Kaunas natives Vytautas Landsbergis and Valdas Adamkus became the Head of state in 1990, and, respectively, in 1998 and 2004.

The President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, stated that an exhibition will be opened in Bad Iburg which will be named “ The Lost History of East Prussia: Wolf Children and Their Fate ”.

* Audio interviews of two leaders of Lithuania's Singing Revolution: Vytautas Landsbergis and Valdas Adamkus, current President of the Republic of Lithuania

In 2002, Paksas founded the Liberal Democratic Party, and ran for the presidency, winning the run-off against incumbent Valdas Adamkus in January 2003.

In May 1999, Vagnorius stepped down and President Valdas Adamkus asked Paksas to become the Prime Minister.

On 5 January 2003, he was elected President of Lithuania, after a surprise win over the incumbent Valdas Adamkus in a runoff.

George W. Bush, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Arnold Rüütel, and Valdas Adamkus in Riga, May 7, 2005.

In 1929, Voldemaras acted as the Godfather to the three year old Valdas Adamkus, who later became the President of Lithuania.

President Valdas Adamkus

Signed into law by President Valdas Adamkus on June 9, 1999, the " Law on the National Anthem of the Republic of Lithuania " details when and where the national anthem is played and its performance protocols.

During the runoff, he supported Valdas Adamkus, who had finished second in the first round.

Mikheil Saakashvili | Mikheil Saak ’ ashvili, Lech Kaczyński and Valdas Adamkus in Tbilisi, November 2007.

Valdas Adamkus ( pronounced ; born in Kaunas, Lithuania ; November 3, 1926 ) was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.

Valdas Adamkus served as regional administrator of the EPA for sixteen years, and retired in 1997, after twenty-nine years of service.

EPA Region 5 presented him with the newly established " Valdas V. Adamkus Sustained Commitment to the Environment Honor Award ".

Shortly after leaving the EPA, Valdas Adamkus moved back to Lithuania.

In 2003 Valdas Adamkus was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the Construction of Knowledge Societies.

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, noted that Valdas Adamkus was named as Ambassador " in recognition of his dedication to the Organization's aims and ideals and with a view to benefiting for the construction of knowledge societies from his wisdom and extensive experience in many of UNESCO's areas of concern, in particular promotion of social development, cultural diversity, dialogue and international cooperation.

Under the presidency of Valdas Adamkus, Lithuania actively promoted democracy in the formerly Soviet Eastern European and Asian nations.

Valdas Adamkus enjoys a very high approval rating in Lithuania.

Valdas Adamus is a member of the Club of Madrid.

He was supported by outgoing President Algirdas Brazauskas and narrowly lost in the runoff to Valdas Adamkus, with Paulauskas gaining 49. 6 % of vote and Adamkus gaining 50. 4 %.

Following the impeachment of President Rolandas Paksas on 6 April 2004, Paulauskas served as acting President of Lithuania until early elections were held and a new President, Valdas Adamkus, was sworn on 12 July 2004.

President Adamkus expressed the view that the war's end, in Lithuania, marked the beginning of a fifty-year Soviet occupation and repression.

President Adamkus played a key role in bringing the new centrist parties together.

He then served as Special Assignments envoy to Adamkus.

V. Adamkus eventually became President.

President Adamkus meeting with Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney in Lithuania.

Adamkus shaking hands with George W. Bush in the Presidential Palace, Vilnius | Presidential Palace in Vilnius.

In Lithuania, the President's tenure lasts for five years ; Adamkus ' first term in office began on February 26, 1998 and ended on February 28, 2003, following his defeat by Rolandas Paksas in the next presidential election.

Soon afterwards, when a new election was announced, Adamkus again ran for president and was re-elected.

Adamkus was born into a Roman Catholic family in Kaunas.

As a young man, Adamkus joined the underground against the first Soviet occupation of 1940.

During his youth, Adamkus was interested in track and field.

Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.

The Estonian President Arnold Rüütel's state visit to Luxembourg was in May 2003, prime minister Andrus Ansip's in 2006.

* May 29 – Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician ( b. 1896 )

While in the KGB's Lubyanka Prison, Solzhenitsyn had befriended Arnold Susi, a lawyer and former Estonian Minister of Education.

From 1969 to 1977, Arnold Rüütel was Rector of the Estonian Academy of Agriculture.

Although, on the first ballot, Arnold Rüütel, a former leading communist and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR, had led with 42 per cent of the total vote, the final choice for the nomination was made by Parliament, the Riigikogu, which was dominated by the Pro Patria Alliance.

* Arnold Rüütel ( Estonian communist leader, later president of the independent Estonia )

In 1991, he was a member of the Estonian Constitutional Assembly, and in 1992, he ran as a presidential candidate against Arnold Rüütel ( 3rd President of the Republic of Estonia, 2001 – 2006 ), and Lennart Meri ( 2nd President of the Republic of Estonia, 1992 – 2001 ), who won the election.

* Arnold Meri ( 1919 – 2009 ), Soviet World War II veteran and Soviet Estonian politician