Prosecutor General's Office of Lithuania demanded Vilnius District Court, examine the case of the January events 1991 of the year, to sentence the accused in absentia of ex-Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov and the former head of the Vilnius garrison of the Soviet Army Vladimir Uskhopchik (living in Belarus) to life imprisonment.
Yazov was accused of creating an organized group of 160 military and political figures, who by force of arms to try to return to Lithuania in the USSR - results Tass indictment Attorney Daiva Skorupskayte Lisauskene. According to charge, the result of these efforts was the death of the accused persons, and committed acts should be qualified as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Recall, in the end of January 2016 , the Prosecutor General's Office of Lithuania at the trial on the "case 13 January "issued in absentia against former Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Yazov, who is charged with the creation of "an organized group of 160 military and political leaders in order to return Lithuania to the USSR ".
According to the indictment, Yazov "created an organized group with the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Boris Pugo, Chairman of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and member of the Politburo of the CPSU Oleg Shenin ", I prepared a "plan of change of power in Lithuania".
The Russian State Duma adopted a statement earlier in connection with the process, calling it “politically motivated judgment seat”, “retributive justice” and an attempt to falsify history.
