Vilnius district Court has convicted on the case about the events of 13 January 1991 at the Vilnius TV tower, the former Soviet defense Minister Dmitry Yazov and former KGB officer Mikhail Golovatova, reports Sputnik Lithuania. "Both Russian citizens were tried in absentia. The court found them guilty of " criminal acts against humanity and war crimes." Golovatova declared unlawful 12 years in prison, and Yazov - ten years " - said in the report. the court began meeting in the case of the events of 13 January 1991, it must also be made of judicial decisions to citizens of the Russian Federation Yuri Grind and Gennady Ivanov. Before in the Russian Embassy in Vilnius said that Russian diplomats were denied presence at the court meeting due to the fact that " in court there is no ground." in 2016 in Lithuania was commenced the hearing of " the case of the events of January 13 ". The Lithuanian Prosecutor's office said that citizens who came to the demonstration of disagreement and lost his life at the Vilnius TV tower in January 1991, was killed by Soviet soldiers, however, no evidence provides. Among the defendants there are two Russian citizen Yuri Mel, who was arrested in Lithuania in 2014, and Gennady Ivanov, a former military living in the Baltic Republic. The prosecution demanded to sentence the Grinding to 16 years of prison given arrest term in 2014, Ivanov to 12 years. The Supreme Council of Lithuania eleven March 1990 declared the restoration of independence of the Republic. In January 1991 in Lithuania were started unauthorized demonstrations of disagreement, the Republic had deployed soldiers of the special forces. On the night of January 13, a column of Soviet armored vehicles headed to the centre of Vilnius. In the process clashes at the television station has lost the lives of 14 people, more than 600 were injured. The state Duma adopted a communication on trial in the so-called "case of January 13," the events of 1991 in Lithuania, calling it "a political process in the worst traditions of" punitive justice ", which is not connected with the protection of the rights and freedoms of man ". In July 2018, Russia's Investigative Committee opened a case against the attorney generals and judges of Lithuania on bringing the innocent to justice following an investigation of events in Vilnius in 1991. <span style="color:darkgray