Arturas Zuokas (born 21 February 1968 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian politician.
He is the Chairman of the political party Lithuanian Freedom Union.
He was the Mayor of Vilnius from 2000 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2015.
From 2008 to 2009 he was a member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament).
Zuokas graduated from the first 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 H.
W.
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.