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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post -independence leader, has suggested inviting Russian parliamentarians to memorial events of January 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. […]
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. […]
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.” […]
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. […]
The Vilnius court hearing a trial of the January 13 attempted coup has decided to question former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
The lawyers for the defendants in the case surrounding the bloody attempted coup of 13 January 1991 told a Lithuanian court on Monday that their clients would plead not guilty. […]
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