MOSCOW, November 9. /TASS/. The Russian State Duma lower house of parliament passed a statement on Wednesday over the case into the January 1991 events in Vilnius examined by the Lithuanian court, ...

MOSCOW — Ignoring the testimony of dozens of eyewitnesses and videotapes, the Soviet prosecutor general’s office yesterday issued a report claiming that the 13 Lithuanians who died during the seizure ...

A Lithuanian court has convicted a former Soviet military chief and a senior KGB officer of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during Moscow's 1991 crackdown on the country’s ...

FILE PHOTO: A Group of Lithuanians block a Russian tank outside of Press House in Vilnius two days prior to attack by Russian forces on the TV tower during which 14 people died, January 1991.

Lithuanian citizens who lost relatives during the Soviet Union’s crackdown on their country’s attempt to reach independence, on Thursday sued former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

President Mikhail Gorbachev said Monday that local garrison commanders, and not the Kremlin, unleashed military force in Lithuania. He did not condemn the army assault, which killed 14 people, but ...

A court in Vilnius has placed a Russian citizen suspected of taking part in the violent dispersal of Lithuanian pro-independence demonstrators in 1991 in two months of pretrial detention. Yury Mel, 45 ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Russia has refused a Lithuanian request to question former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in a trial concerning the killing of 15 people in Vilnius in 1991. Moscow cited ...

VILNIUS, October 17. /TASS/. The Vilnius District Court intends to summon last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, as a witness in the January 1991 events in the Lithuanian capital that ...