January 13

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.

Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis on Monday strongly criticized the work of prosecutors in the January 13 case, saying that they have diminished the importance of the investigation.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office is handing to court the case of attempted coup of January 13, 1991, which is the most significant and the largest case in the history of Lithuania's law-enforcement, the office said.

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.

Prosecutors from Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office are finishing the indictment in the January 13 case, with 69 people, mainly Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The United States supports Lithuania's "enduring struggle with some of your neighbours", Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner said in Vilnius on Monday.

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 President Dalia Grybauskaitė does not comment on the ruling of Vilnius Regional Court which acquitted Soviet OMON officers Boleslav Makutynovich and Vladimir Razvodov. However, the president has said that the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law, said chief advis...

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.

Vakar žydų ultraortodoksų laikraštis „The Announcer“ sukėlė kontroversiją, kai iš nuotraukos su pasaulio lyderiais, padarytos per sekmadienio eitynes, skirtas Prancūzijos teroristinio išpuolio aukoms pagerbti, fotografijų redagavimo priemonėmis ištrynė moteris.

Restrictions on Russian TV channel RTR Planeta ended in Lithuania on Tuesday. The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission vows, however, to impose even tougher sanctions, if violations are repeated.