Virgilijus Vladislovas Bulovas (born 6 November 1939 in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...

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) is a Lithuanian engineer and political figure. Bulovas is a former member of the

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and twice served on the

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as the Minister of the Interior.

Biography

Bulovas was born to a family of a military officer in

, on 6 November 1939. In 1941, after

Soviet occupation During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. These included the eastern regions of Poland (incorporated into two different ...

, his father was deported to Siberia, where he later died. Bulovas graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnics Institute in 1960, with a degree in electrical engineering, specializing in computers. He worked at the Institute until 1992, was awarded a doctorate degree in 1972 and became a docent in 1976. He co-wrote two computer science books and authored more than 50 scientific and educational papers. Bulovas had been a member of the

Communist Party of Lithuania The Communist Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos komunistų partija; russian: Коммунистическая партия Литвы) is a banned communist party in Lithuania. The party was established in early October 1918 and operated clan ...

since 1963. Upon independence he joined the ranks of

Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos demokratinė darbo partija, LDDP) was the renamed Communist Party of Lithuania. It was a political party in Lithuania in the 1990s, which claimed to be social-democratic. The youth organizati ...

and, in the elections in 1992, was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas through its electoral list. In 1996 Bulovas was appointed the Minister of the Interior in the Government of

Laurynas Stankevičius Laurynas Mindaugas Stankevičius (10 August 1935 – 17 March 2017) was a Lithuanian economist and politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania from February to November 1996. He previously served as the Minister of Social Securit ...

and served until the next elections to the Seimas. In 1997, he was appointed the

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. Bulovas returned to the Ministry of the Interior in 2001, as a deputy-minister and, later, secretary under

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. In 2003 he succeeded Bernatonis as the Minister of the Interior in the Government of

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References

Members of the Seimas Politicians from Kaunas 1939 births Kaunas University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Kaunas University of Technology Ministers of Internal Affairs of Lithuania Communist Party of Lithuania politicians Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania politicians Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class Living people {{Lithuania-politician-stub