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Kazimieras Uoka

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Kazimieras Uoka

Kazimieras Uoka (4 March 1951 – 16 July 2016) was a Lithuanian politician. He signed the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.[1]

He was born in Kaunas. Uoka graduated from Vilnius University in 1976.[1] He was a leader of the labor movement in the early years of the independence movement.[2]

Uoka died on 16 July 2016 in Vilnius, aged 65.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Lietuvos Respublikos Aukščiausiosios Tarybos AKTO Dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo signataras Kazimieras Uoka" (in Lithuanian). Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Archived from the original on 27 October 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  2. Vardys, Vytas Stanley; Sedaitis, Judith B. (1997). Lithuania: The Rebel Nation. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-1839-4.