Artūras Zuokas

Who is Artūras Zuokas?

Artūras Zuokas is a Lithuanian politician. He is a leader of the political party YES, and is the Mayor of Vilnius.

From 2008–2009 he was a member of the Seimas, and from 2000–2007 he was the Mayor of Vilnius.

Zuokas graduated from the secondary school in Jonava. He then worked as an independent reporter for Independent Television News as a war reporter in Iraq, where he taped the bombing of the Baghdad TV Tower during the First Gulf War. In August 1991, he brought recently captured footage from the site of the Medininkai Massacre to the official meeting between the president of the United States George Bush and Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, which caused concern from the American side about the use of force against freedom-seeking nations.