Audronius Ažubalis

Audronius Ažubalis (born 17 January 1958 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian journalist and politician, serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania from 2010 to 2012.

Ažubalis represents the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, Lithuania's conservative party and part of the European People's Party.

Later he continued his studies at the World Press Institute at Macalester College, United States.

In January 2010, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius presented Ažubalis as a candidate for the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs to President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

"[2] Ažubalis has argued that "it is not possible to find differences between Hitler and Stalin except in their moustaches,"[3] echoing the view advanced by Stéphane Courtois in The Black Book of Communism.