Conservatives ask Russia to compensate for Jan. 13 victims

By Arturas Racas

VILNIUS - Lithuanian relations with Russia could freeze over again if Parliament supports a resolution prepared by the opposition Conservative party that will ask Russia to compensate those killed and wounded in the events of Jan. 13, 1991.The draft resolution, registered in the legislature this week, states that the Soviet army’s attack in Vilnius on Jan. 13, 1991 – currently known as Freedom Defenders’ Day – was an “act of aggression against independent Lithuania and its people” and that many ...

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