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Dovile Sakaliene

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Dovile Sakaliene is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Dovile Sakaliene · Dovilė Šakalienė · Dovilė Šakalienėová · Довиле Шакалене · Довіле Шакаліене · 3 more...				[sources]
Other name	Dovile Sakaliene · Довиле Шакалиене · 萨卡利埃内				[sources]
Birth date	1978-06-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Lithuania				[sources]
Citizenship	Lithuania				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Dovilė				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q27807718				[sources]
Position	Member of the Seimas (2016-2020) · Member of the Seimas (2020-2024) · Member of the Seimas (2024-) · Minister of National Defense · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2017-2018)				[sources]
Education	Mykolas Romeris University · Vilnius University				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov · www.lrs.lt				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-19	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

MP

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-03-08

Lithuanian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2021-03-22	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Seimas	2016-11-14	2020-11-13

Data sources

China Sanctions Research218

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,042

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,660

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,228

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Lithuania Members of the Seimas142

Current and recent members of the Seimas, Lithuania's unicameral parliament

Lithuania · Seimas

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,493

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,043

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: lt-seimas-dovile-sakaliene · us-cia-lithuania-dovile-sakaliene-minister-of-national-defense

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