VILNIUS - A Vilnius court ended a three-year trial Aug. 26 and sentenced six pro-Soviet Communists to prison terms for their roles in the attempted coup of January 1991.Mykolas Burokevicius, former first secretary of the pro-Soviet Lithuanian Communist Party, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Juozas Jermalavicius was sentenced to eight years.Other leaders of the pro-Moscow Communists received the following sentences: Juozas Kuo-lelis, six years; Stanislav Mitskevich and Jaroslav Prokopovic, four years; Leon Bartosevic, three years.Mitskevich did not show up in the courtroom during the re...
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