Kazimira Prunskienė, The First Prime Minister Of Independent Lithuania, Has Died

The "Amber Lady" passed away at the age of 83.

A signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania dated March 11, 1990, professor, and the first prime minister of independent Lithuania, Kazimira-Danutė Prunskienė, has passed away at the age of 83, reports Delfi.

Prunskienė became prime minister of the first government of independent Lithuania on March 17, 1990. At that time, she came to be known as the “Amber Lady”—by analogy with the “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher.
She ran for president of Lithuania in 2004 and 2009. In November 2004, she became Minister of Agriculture.
In December 2010, she traveled to Belarus to observe the presidential election. At the time, she said she saw progress in how the elections were organized:
“I want everything to proceed democratically, so that everyone has a fair chance in the election. I believe that having multiple candidates is a sign of democracy…”
In February 2012, she suffered a stroke and underwent two surgeries, after which she fell into a coma; she underwent rehabilitation in Moscow and returned to Lithuania. In recent years, little information has been available about how Prunskienė is living and how she is feeling. In 2020, it was reported that she was living at her son Vaidotas’s estate.

During the Soviet era (1965–1986), Prunskienė taught at Vilnius University, conducted research in Hungary and the GDR, and later served as deputy director of the Lithuanian Institute of Agricultural Economics and and rector of the Institute for the Advanced Training of Managers and Specialists in the National Economy.

In 1988, she became one of the main architects of the concept of economic independence for the Lithuanian SSR and one of the founders of the Sajudis movement; she was a member of its initiative group and the Seimas Council. She served as Deputy Chair of the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR (1989–1990). She was elected a People’s Deputy of the USSR and participated in the work of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR. In February 1990, she was elected a deputy to the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR. On March 11, 1990, she was among the signatories of the Act on the Restoration of Lithuania’s Independence.

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