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Virgilijus Juozas Čepaitis (November 8, 1937 in Šakiai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian publisher and translator, best known for his involvement in the Sąjūdis independence movement. He was the Executive Secretary of Sąjūdis and a member of its Initiative Group. He was also a signatory of the Declaration of the Restoration of Independence of Lithuania on March 11, 1990. In 1961 Čepaitis graduated from Moscow's Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. Čepaitis is married to Auksuolė Čepaitienė. They have three children and live in Vilnius, Lithuania. ==Positions held== *1958–1988 – free-lance translator; *1988–1989 – the chief-editor of the film company "ARS"; *1989–1990 – the executive secretary of the Sąjūdis Movement; *1990–1992 – Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights and Ethnic Minorities; *Chairman of the Sąjūdis faction, the member of the Lithuanian delegation in the negotiations with Russia in 1990–1991. Head of the Lithuanian delegation in the non-official negotiations with the Soviet Union in Hague, organised by De Burght consultations, 1991; *1993–1996 – the chief-editor of the publishing company "Litera"; *1996–2001 – the director of the publishing company "Tvermė". *Since 2001 – the owner of the publishing company "Librum"
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