The investigative Committee opened a criminal Case under the criminal code against the Lithuanian judges for initially unjust verdict to the Russians, said the official authorized office, Svetlana Petrenko. By assumption, SK, in March the Vilnius district court was illegally subjected to prosecution of the participants of the case about the events of January 1991 by Dmitry Yazov, Mikhail Golovatova, Vladislav Swede, Yuri Grinding, Gennady Ivanov and other Russians - in the criminal acts against humanity and war offences and set a period from 4 to 14 years of punishment. She clarified that the court ignored the facts of the shooting on civilian roofs and upper floors of buildings in Vilnius, although it is known that " the conflict involved a third party ". In addition, a sentence was passed in spite of the principle of international law, " the illegality of giving the criminal law retroactive effect." Proceedings were instituted against judges of Inori Macavity, Quince Sevilene, Virginia Tamosiunaite and Arturas Shumskas. The Supreme Council of Lithuania declared the restoration of independence in March 1990, But the Soviet authorities called the decision unconstitutional and illegal. In the beginning of next year in Lithuania held an unauthorized demonstration of disagreement, the country has deployed special forces soldiers. on the night of January 13, a column of Soviet armored vehicles headed to the centre of Vilnius for the maintenance of public order. In collisions at the television station has lost the lives of 14 people, more than 600 were injured. in 2016 in Lithuania began the trial in " the case of the events of January 13 ". As stated by the Prosecutor's office, the protesters, who lost their lives During the riots at the Vilnius TV tower in 1991, was killed by Soviet soldiers. However, no evidence the investigation is not provided. in July last year the Investigative Committee initiated a Case against the Lithuanian public prosecutors and judges. Blame them that, after the investigation of the events in Vilnius they prosecuted innocent citizens of Russia - military, police and Communist party members. As stressed in the UK, in 1991, the Lithuanian SSR was still part of the Soviet Union, and the troops " do their own call of duty and acted in accordance with law." <span style="color:darkgray