Born on 16 August 1936 in Veisieju.
Graduated from Šilutė 1st Secondary School (now gymnasium). In 1959 he graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in archaeology, in 1966 - in industrial economics. 1970-1974 - postgraduate student at the I. Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas Industry in Moscow. In 1975 he defended his dissertation "The Economic Efficiency of Optimising the Optimisation of Gasification Systems in the Cities of the Baltic Republics" at the same institute, Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 1984 he defended his thesis 'Optimisation of urban gas supply systems under probabilistic uncertainty', Doctor of Economics. From 1961 to 1966 he worked at the Chief Board of Domestic Population Services under the Lithuanian Council of Ministers. 1966-1969 Deputy Head of the Chief Gasification Board of the Ministry of Utilities, 1969-1986 Head of the Gas Plant Adjustment and Gasification Orgotechnical Board. 1986-1990 Lecturer at the Vilnius Engineering Construction Institute, since 1987 Professor. Deputy Minister of Energy in 1990-1991, co-author of the National Programme for Energy and Efficiency Improvement approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Chairman of the Organisational Coordination Commission (1991). Since 1995, owner and head of R. Flicko consulting and trading firm (Klaipėda). Since 2009 member of the Lithuanian Academy of Applied Sciences.