Lithuania has designated January 13 as Freedom Defenders Day, paying tribute to the unarmed civilians who stood down Soviet forces in Vilnius. "It's our victory day," said Marius Laurinavicius ...

Lithuania marks the Freedom Defenders’ Day on January 13th to commemorate the 14 victims that lost their lives during Soviet aggression exactly thirty years ago in Vilnius. The tragic events were of ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — An explosion occurred Friday in a pipeline in central Lithuania carrying gas to the north of the country and neighboring Latvia but no injuries or significant supply ...

January 13th is Freedom Defenders Day in Lithuania. On this day in 1991, Soviet soldiers attacked Lithuania civilians shortly after the Baltic country gained its independence from the bloc, leaving 14 ...

VILNIUS – Lithuanian lawmakers have decided to continue their debate on declaring January 13, the Day of the Defenders of Freedom, a public holiday.

The violence, which culminated at a television tower on Jan. 13, 1991, left more than a dozen dead and hundreds wounded. Lithuania won its freedom in September 1991. Gleischman said Durbin would ...

At the beginning of 1991, Moscow demanded the restoration of the Soviet constitution and that Lithuania relinquish its independence. On January 13, 1991, pro-Kremlin forces, backed by the Soviet ...

Vitas Tomkus, the publisher of the Lithuanian newspaper Republic, returns to the authorities the medal of memory of January 13, 1991, which he was awarded among many hundreds and thousands of ...

A flame rises after an explosion at a gas pipeline near Pasvalys, 175 km (109 miles) north of Vilnius in northern Lithuania on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023 [Paulius Zidonis/AP] Published On 13 Jan 202313 ...