15 Facts About Algirdas Paleckis

Algirdas Paleckis was born on 20 May 1971 and is a Lithuanian diplomat, politician, columnist, leader of the political movement The Dawn of Justice.

Siauliai district court convicted Paleckis for spying for Russia in July 2021.

Algirdas Paleckis was born on 20 May 1971, in Bern, Switzerland, the son of Soviet diplomat Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Algirdas Paleckis's grandfather was Justas Paleckis, a journalist and a foreign correspondent in 1930s who later became a communist and the speaker of the Supreme Soviet of Lithuanian SSR following the Soviet occupation.

In 1994, Algirdas Paleckis graduated from Vilnius University with a master's degree in journalism and international relations.

From 1997 to 2001, Algirdas Paleckis was the 1st secretary at Lithuania's Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels, becoming head of the West European Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania in 2001, a post in which he remained until 2003.

Later, Algirdas Paleckis was an assemblyman of the Council of Europe from 24 January 2005 to 5 May 2007 and worked as a Vice-Mayor of Vilnius from 2007 to 2008.

Algirdas Paleckis is fluent in Lithuanian, English, French, Russian and German.

Algirdas Paleckis stated that "it appears that in January 1991 our own people were shooting at their natives".

Algirdas Paleckis alleged that these snipers were placed there by the Lithuanian government of the time to generate nationalist sympathy.

The prosecutor states there is enough data to state that Algirdas Paleckis was defaming the post-war period of Lithuanian partisan armed resistance against the USSR.

Algirdas Paleckis was arrested again in 2018 on suspicion of spying for Russia.

The Lithuanian authorities argued against granting bail on the grounds that Algirdas Paleckis had lived in Moscow, had connections there and could flee from the country.

Algirdas Paleckis was last a member of the Socialist People's Front, a democratic socialist political party.

Algirdas Paleckis left the party in 2016, citing differences with party leadership.