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As Lithuania marks the 25th anniversary of the tragic events of 13 January 1991 and Freedom Defenders Day, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has emphasised that a quarter of a century ago Lithuania achieved one of its biggest victories which also was an unforgettable historic lesson demonstrating that in...
The day of the Defenders of Freedom was commemorated in Lithuania on Tuesday to honour January 13, 1991, the anniversary of the defenders of Lithuanian freedom and the victims of Soviet aggression. Bonfires were burning all around Lithuania as a reminder of the day when the country’s freedom was def...
Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of state of Lithuania after secession from the Soviet Union in 1990, has caused minor controversy by refusing to participate in January 13 commemoration events in parliament.
On the evening of 13 January 1991, journalist Eglė Bučelytė was broadcasting from the Lithuanian Radio and Television studio in Vilnius when Soviet paratroopers broke into the building to cut off her live broadcast. With the approach of that significant day's 25th anniversary, Bučelytė spoke to Delf...
Lithuanians all over the world stand in solidarity on the 25th anniversary commemoration of January 1991 events.
“Sometimes I think, how come we weren't a least bit afraid – even for my husband, who was a Soviet army conscript at the time?” Odeta Barkauskienė, a factory worker at the time of the turbulent events of January 1991, remembers her spontaneous decision to join civil guards of a broadcasting station ...
Three Klaipėda City councilmen remember January 13, 1991 - the memories don’t fade.
Every January, Lithuanians participate in an annual winter run called “Gyvybės ir Mirties Keliu“ (The Path of Life and Death) to commemorate the people that died in Lithuania during the events of 13 January, 1991. This tradition has spread throughout the Lithuanian diaspora, and even the Lithuanian ...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the events of January 13th, 1991, a commemorative international marathon called "On the road of life and death" was held on Saturday in Lithuania and in capital cities all over the world.
Robertas Povilaitis who lost his father during the Soviet aggression in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, has turned to the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office, calling for a more active investigation of the liability of the Soviet Union's then leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has criticized to competence of prosecutors who drafted the indictment for the trial of former Soviet OMON leaders, noting that there are reasons to appeal against last week's court ruling which cleared the former OMON officers of all charges.
Lithuanian prosecutors have decided to appeal against the court ruling to clear former commanders of the Soviet special militia unit OMON of charges, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday.
Can we speak about our former enemies and talk to them, or shall we keep the distance, ignore and insist that they are not worth our attention? I’ve concluded the following: if we are scared of something, we tend to pretend that it simply does not exist. If we are able to look into the eyes of the f...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Dr. Julian Lindley-French, Senior Fellow, Institute of Statecraft, Netherlands. Remembering protests in Moscow in January 1991 as a response to Soviet’s violence in Vilnius, Lithuania, do you think that today those people regret supporting Lithuania...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Andrei Piontkovsky, Senior Fellow, Russian Academy of Sciences. Remembering protests in Moscow in January 1991 as a response to Soviet’s violence in Vilnius, Lithuania, do you think that today those people regret supporting Lithuania back then, we asked P...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA and Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK. Remembering protests in Moscow in January 1991 as a response to Soviet’s violence in Vilnius, Lithuania, do you think that today those people regret suppor...
On 15 January, the duo of Dalia Dedinskaitė and Gleb Pyšniak played a recital in remembrance of Lithuania’s Freedom Defenders’ Day at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington. The duo performed works by Zoltán Kodály, Vytautas Barkauskas, and Maurice Ravel.
The decision by the Higher Academic Council of Ukraine to name Lithuanian president the Person of the Year is the appreciation of the country's support to Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Wednesday delivered a letter of gratitude and a memorial gift to Ukrainian citizen Yevhen Dykyi who headed a group of Ukrainians defending the Lithuanian parliament in January 1991.
On Tuesday, 13 January, the Lithuanian community and a large number of American guests commemorated in Washington’s University Club the day in 1991 when the Soviet army attempted to overthrow Lithuania's legitimate government in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attendants paid ...
