2024-07-26 05:16:21
This was confirmed to Elta on Thursday by Ridas Jasiulionis, the advisor to the president.
The Seimas approved the LGGRTC reform last week. Perhaps the most important change provided for in the law is the establishment of a governing council of 11 members. It will consist of four representatives of the Rectors’ Conference, 1 representative each of the Institute of History, the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, the Government and the Presidency and LGGRTC, and 2 more members would be delegated by the Seimas. The expected start of the council’s activities is on October 1 of this year.
It is also envisaged that the council will set annual performance targets for the general director. Among other things, the new council will make proposals to the head of the LGGRTC and the Seimas regarding the operation and management of the institution and the implementation of research, and at the proposal of the director, will approve the description of the center’s budget allocation, announce and carry out the selection of applicants for the vacant position of the center’s general director, and every year by June 1 will prepare its activities annual report.
In the new version of the law, the object of scientific research carried out at the center was also expanded – it was approved that the LGGRTC should study the manifestations of genocide and resistance of the Lithuanian population from 1918 to 1993, when the Soviet army was withdrawn from Lithuania. Until now, the center has conducted research on the genocide of the Lithuanian population carried out by the occupation regimes in the years 1939-1990 and resistance to these regimes, and researched the 1920-1939. The policy implemented by the occupation regime in the Vilnius region and the processes of resistance to it.
However, LGGRTC’s changes have received mixed reviews. On the day of the adoption of the law, about half a dozen anti-reform activists, as well as representatives of the “National Unification” party, gathered to picket the Seimas.
Arūnas Bubnys, the current head of the LGGRTC, also expresses his doubts, wondering whether it will be possible to smoothly implement the changes provided for in the law, since, according to the center’s calculations, more than half a million euros will be needed to pay for the work of the council and the resistance rights commission next year.
2024-07-26 05:16:21