Society
January 13 coup victims to be offered free legal aid
Free legal assistance will be offered to victims of the January 13 1991 attempted coup in the case of compensation of damages, Lithuania’s Justice Ministry said. […]
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 Lithuanian- and Russian-language broadcasts. […]
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 the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
CORPORATE
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 13 – Kęstutis Smirnovas and Dainius Kepenis – stress that it is necessary to warm the currently chilly relations with Russia and be friends. In their opinion this should firstly be done in terms of culture, sports and public opinion formation. […]
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 small-scale nuclear war is permissible. […]
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 in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
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 the country marks the 26th anniversary of a bloody 1991 Soviet crackdown on its independence drive. […]
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. […]
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 ambassadors ahead of the Freedom Defenders Day, noting that the meetings were held to remind the diplomats about their countries’ unwillingness to extradite defendants in the January 13 attempted coup trial. […]
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 as a witness in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
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 rules to question Gorbachev in coup trial” as my Ph.D. in history research at the University of Tartu, Estonia is on “Why the Soviet use of Coercive Force in the Baltic Republics Failed in 1990-1991 and Led to the End of the Soviet Union.” The most important part of this BNS article was not the headline of the Lithuanian court ruling to request the questioning of Gorbachev, which will never happen. Rather, the statement that “…Lithuanian prosecutors said that the available evidence did not lead to a conclusion that Gorbachev was aware of the intended military action and failed to take measures to prevent it.” […]
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 him in the January 13 attempted coup trial. […]
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 Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. […]
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 not yet stated their final decision. […]
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 progress, but there are still many disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the country. […]
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 forces organized an assault against peaceful protesters in Vilnius. The move is not conductive to effective cooperation and will be used as a propaganda tool, the Lithuanian government believes. […]
Opinion
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 with Lithuania on the January 13 coup case, says EU Ambassador to Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas. […]
CORPORATE
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 cooperating and sharing information among themselves. Experts say that now they are mobilizing behind politicians who are trying to win power. […]
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 through diplomatic channels. […]