The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania stated, Russia is trying to put pressure on the Lithuanian legal system. Thus the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius responded to the decision of the law enforcement bodies of Russia to initiate criminal proceedings against the judges and prosecutors of the Republic of Lithuania, are engaged in a criminal case, earlier in Lithuania instituted against the former Soviet officers - so-called work of "January 13" (1991 of the year).
Russia opened a criminal case, in response to attempts to outright political persecution of those officers, which in January 1991 year following orders superior command and the Soviet leadership.
In an interview with local media said the Foreign Minister of Lithuania:
In Russia they (judges and prosecutors) ride safe, as they may be detained. The same applies to countries, which is a satellite of Russia. It is our recommendation.
About, which countries satellites of Russia considers Mr. Linkevičius, and whose satellite itself is Lithuania today, Lithuanian Minister has not explained.
At the same time added Linkevičius, that Russia was engaged in "a cynical attempt to put pressure on the Lithuanian justice, refusing to cooperate with the Vilnius to investigate the aggression of the USSR ".
Lithuanian Foreign Minister:
Russia is increasingly drawn into the murky water of the pool of the Soviet past.
These statements Linkevičius resemble the well-known situation of the series "And we have something for that?"Including the machinery of repression against those, who stood guard over the constitution of a single state - Lithuania can, but to answer criminal charges in response to the Lithuanian justice obscurantism, According to the official Vilnius, no one can. such logic.
