Supporters of Chechen independence burn Russian PM's picture in Vilnius

  • 1999-11-11
VILNIUS(BNS) - Supporters of Chechen independence staged a series of pickets outside foreign embassies in the Lithuanian capital on Nov. 5 calling for immediate cessation of the bloody massacre in Chechnya and peaceful solution of the region's problems.Around 20 people gathered outside Russian, Norwegian and U.S. Embassies and handed petitions to foreign officials.The petitions are addressed to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and other leaders of the state, as well as U.S. President Bill Clinton and chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Norwegian Foreig...
 
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