Lukiskes Prison to be closed
Feb 03, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

A STROLL IN THE PRISON’S COURTYARD: President Dalia Grybauskaite visits Lukiskes Prison.
VILNIUS - On Jan. 26, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite was in prison. She visited the Lukiskes Prison, situated in the very heart of Vilnius. The prison was built in 1904. Then it was the biggest prison of the Russian Empire. The prison’s history is rich - political prisoners (some of them later became famous, or infamous) - for example, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, godfather of the KGB) as well as many people who did not take part in any pol ...
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