January 13

  • Society

JustMin bars Russia’s TV Channel from using Lithuanian name in title

Lithuania's Justice Ministry has banned the use of the Lithuanian name in titles of the Lietuvos Laikas and Litovskoye Vremia…

8 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Gorbachev served summons to testify in 1991 crackdown trial in Lithuania

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has received a summons to testify as a witness in a mass trial related to…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

V. Laučius – how to be friends with Russia

The comrades of the Seimas Speaker who advertised himself with the Russian ambassador Aleksandr Udalcov on the eve of January…

8 years ago
  • Defence

World is being accustomed to thought that small nuclear war is permissible – Landsbergis

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-independence leader, says that the modern world is being accustomed to medieval-style international relations where a…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Vilnius court still expects Gorbachev to testify in 1991 crackdown trial

The Vilnius Regional Court has sent three summons to former Soviet leader Gorbachev asking him to testify as a witness…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Adamkus, Landsbergis receive Freedom Prizes

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-independence leader, and former President Valdas Adamkus were presented with the Freedom Prizes on Friday as…

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Prof Landsbergis suggests inviting Russian MPs to Jan 13 memorial events

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post -independence leader, has suggested inviting Russian parliamentarians to memorial events of January 13 coup. [...]

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Seimas speaker: meetings with ambassadors a chance to bring up Jan 13 coup

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says he is astonished by the criticism over his meetings with the Russian and Belarusian…

8 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Court gets no response from Gorbachev in 1991 crackdown trial

The Vilnius Regional Court has so far received no response from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev whom it wants to testify…

8 years ago
  • Opinion

Gorbachev had to have known about the January 13 Vilnius assault

I read with interest the BNS October 17, 2016 article, published in the EN.DELFI by the Lithuania Tribune “Lithuanian court…

8 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Gorbachev’s spokesman gives no comment on court’s move to question

Spokesman for the Soviet Union's former president Mikhail Gorbachev has refused to comment on the Vilnius court's ruling to question…

8 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Lithuanian court rules to question Gorbachev in coup trial

The Vilnius court hearing a trial of the January 13 attempted coup has decided to question former president of the…

8 years ago
  • Politics

January 13 coup defendants living in Russia willing to take part in proceedings in Lithuania

January 13 coup defendants living in Russia are willing to take part in the judicial proceedings in Lithuania, however, have…

8 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania makes progress, but still has ‘pockets of poverty’

The Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, on a visit to Vilnius, says that Lithuania has made a big…

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Russian investigation of January 1991 events in Vilnius a ‘propaganda stunt’, Linkevičius says

Russia has announced it will conduct its own investigation into the attempted coup of January 13, 1991, when Soviet armed…

8 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Marathon is over, let’s get to work

Lithuania has finished its annual marathon of celebrating its statehood. [...]

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

EU unable to pressure Moscow to cooperate in Lithuanian coup trial, says Ambassador

Due to the crisis in relations with Moscow, the European Union (EU) is currently unable to pressure Russia into cooperating…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Fringe media outlets mobilising to create new political force in Lithuania

Fringe online media outlets in Lithuania, often embracing ideas that match those of the state-controlled Russian media, have long been…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania ‘sceptical about getting Russian assistance’ in Jan 13 coup case

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is sceptical about the possibility of securing Russia's assistance in the January 13 coup case…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Defendants in 13 January 1991 case plead not guilty to war crimes charges

The lawyers for the defendants in the case surrounding the bloody attempted coup of 13 January 1991 told a Lithuanian…

9 years ago