Gintautas Paškevičius EN

The Lithuanian judges and prosecutors working on the Jan. 13 case downplay Russia's decision to open criminal cases against them and say they have no plans to travel to Russia.

Defendants in a mass trial related to the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius must be given severe prison sentences and pay over 11.3 million euros in damages in a civil lawsuit, public prosecutors from the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday.