The Vilnius District Court dismissed a civil lawsuit against former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev about his responsibility for the storming of the TV tower in January 1991 in connection with the death of the defendant. Delphi reports..

“The lawsuit was filed against a specific person, the former president of the Soviet Union, after his death succession is impossible,” explained the representative of the Vilnius District Court, Aurim Zukauskas..

As you know, on the night of January 13, 1991, during the assault by Soviet military units of the Vilnius TV tower and the building of the Radio and Television Committee, 14 people were killed..

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Relatives of those killed in the January 1991 events in Lithuania sued the ex-president of the USSR. They intended to prove that Gorbachev, who at that time was the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the USSR, controlled the army, but did not take measures to prevent aggression in Lithuania and thus did not stop the commission of an international crime..

In May, the Vilnius court sent the documents of this lawsuit to the Russian Foreign Ministry for transfer to Gorbachev.

In 2017, the Vilnius District Court, which considered the "