Moscow accused Lithuanian authorities of politicizing the events of January 1991 in Vilnius
According to the Lithuanian authorities, while trying to assault the Soviet military 13 on January 1991, the TV tower and the Radio and TV Committee building in Vilnius killed 14 people, 31 was seriously injured, more than 1000 people were injured by other degrees of severity.
Two citizens of the Russian Federation - former Soviet officers - residing in Vilnius Gennady Ivanov, who in 1991 was the head of the missile and artillery armament service of the 107th motorized rifle division and Russian citizen Yuri Mel, who was arrested in Lithuania and who, according to prosecutors, was in one of the soviet tanks during the assault on the Vilnius TV tower. The remaining defendants, more than 60 of them, are abroad, mainly in Russia.
Stranded, a resident of the Kaliningrad region, was detained in March 2014 at the border checkpoint in Panyamun on the border with the Kaliningrad region. The sanction for his detention was issued in absentia back in 2013 year, reports "Interfax"
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