Russia has declined Lithuania’s request to question USSR Ex-President Mikhail Gorbachev on events in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, Delfi reports.
Prosecutors say that Russia based the decline on the European Convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters of 1959. The convention states that assistance is not granted if it infringes sovereignty and security or interests of the state receiving the request.
The Russian military assaulted the TV broadcasting tower in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, resulting in 14 people dead and 1000 injured. 23 people were suspected in war crime and crime against humanity. 21 of them are Russians Moscow refuses to extradite to Lithuania.
