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	Tour: Vilnius TV Tower
		Vilnius Television Tower is considered to be the symbol of Lithuania's struggle for independence and democracy.
		The city's TV tower was the site of the bloodiest episode in Lithuania's drive for freedom in the early '90s.
		Crosses and flowers are placed at the base of the tower in memory of those who died, there is also a small exhibition devoted to the massacre inside the tower itself.
	www.balticroads.lt /en/tours/vtvtower.asp (202 words)

	Vilnius TV Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vilnius TV Tower (Vilniaus televizijos bokštas) is a 326.5 metre (1071 feet) high building in the Karoliniškės district of Vilnius, Lithuania.
		The construction of the tower was started on May 31, 1974, and the tower was completed on December 30, 1980.
		The TV tower played a major role in the events of January 13, 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vilnius_TV_Tower (305 words)

	Tallinn TV Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tallinn TV Tower (Tallinna teletorn) is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Yachting at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
		The tower body is constructed of reinforced concrete rings 50 centimetres thick, weighing a total of 17,000 metric tons, with total weight being approximately 20,000 tons.
		Vilnius TV Tower, which has a similar architectural design, features a rotating observation deck 165 metres above ground.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tallinn_TV_Tower (253 words)

	Sights
		During a plague that swept the land in 1657, a cellar in the monastery was used to accommodate an overflow of corpses.
		Vilnius TV tower: (B-1) In the Karoliniskes district, northwest of the city center, Sausio 13-osios 10, tel.
		The city's TV tower was the site of the bloodiest episode in Lithuania's drive for freedom in the early '90s.
	www.balticsww.com /tourist/lithuania/sights.htm (2960 words)

	Wikinfo \| Vilnius
		Vilnius is also the largest administrative centre in Lithuania with all major political, economic, social and cultural centres.
		According to the story, Vilnius was founded and built after ruling Grand duke Gediminas had a prophetic dream about a iron wolf standing on a hill, and he asked a priest for an explanation.
		The Soviets responded on January 9,1991 by sending in troops, and on January 13 during the Soviet Army attack on the State Radio and Television building and Vilnius TV retranslation tower 14 people were killed and more than 700 seriously injured.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Vilnius (1203 words)

	Soviet Crackdown/1991 Vilnius Massacre
		The crackdown, and particularly the killings at the TV tower, not only brought fame and sympathy to Lithuania from around the world, it was also a defining moment for Lithuanians themselves: the bloodshed meant they had crossed a point of no return.
		When she heard Soviet forces were beginning to move around Vilnius, she jumped in her car, drove to the capital and headed to the TV tower.
		But when his driver heard on the radio that tanks were moving on the TV tower, he drove back to the hotel, picked Carney up, and they headed for the tower.
	www.balticsww.com /news/features/crackdown.htm (3813 words)

	Vilnius TV Tower, Vilnius
		TV Tower is tallest man-made structure in Lithuania and second tallest in Baltic States, after Riga TV Tower
		Later, in the end of 2000 and start of the 2001, tower's lights were lit up again, this time with several lights mounted on the top of antennae standing on top of the restaurant.
		Tower will be transferred to christmas tree each year until the 2010 (1000th anniversary of creation of Lithuania) each year trying to improve it a bit.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=111006 (435 words)

	MediaChannel.org - OP-ED \| TV Towers
		In Putin's Chechen war the TV tower in Grozny was recently a Russian target and so were the Baltic TV towers during the events that finally lead to the collapse of Communism.
		In Latvia, similar scenes were played live over CNN and on Scandinavian TV stations one or two days later: The people of Riga running through their city in a desperate race to reach the TV tower and surround it before the Russian Black Berets arrived in their vehicles.
		In Tallin the armed forces stormed the TV tower and advanced slowly towards the top floor where Estonian TV personnel were barricaded with weapons and food for several days, devoted to defending their TV.
	www.mediachannel.org /views/oped/kaca.shtml (2007 words)

	TV tower - Vilnius Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		The skyline of Vilnius is dominated by TV Tower located in the suburbs, southwest of the centre/downtown.
		With the height of 326 m (1071 ft) it was the tallest tower in Lithuania and the second tallest in the Baltic states after TV tower in Riga, Latvia.
		The inscriptions was in Lithuanian and included 14 names of the victims of Soviet attack against Vilnius TV Tower or maybe better to say against Lithuanians fighting for independence.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Lithuania/Vilniaus_Apskritis/Vilnius-444288/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Vilnius-TV_tower-BR-1.html (986 words)

	Jörgen Städje, Image Galleries: Lithuanian Late History
		For us, who were watching Swedish TV, seeing the live TV coverage of the putsch in Vilnius 1991, tracers and heavy armed carriers rumbling down streets unknown to us, it seemed almost impossible that such a thing cold happen so close to our little island of freedom in the world.
		The image shows the Vilnius TV tower, around which severe battles were fought, between drugged Russian tank drivers and unarmed civilians.
		One of the memorials show the pictures of the 14 young who were run over by tanks or killed in other ways during the fight at the TV tower.
	www.qedata.se /e_js_litauiskt_galleri_historia.htm (2019 words)

	Lithuania - Destination Guide - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A prolonged stand-off came to a head on January 11, 1991 when Soviet forces killed fourteen people at Vilnius TV Tower, but as the anti-Gorbachev coup foundered in August 1991, the world - soon followed by the disintegrating Soviet Union - recognized Lithuanian independence.
		Travel in Lithuania presents no real hardships, and even in well-trodden destinations the volume of visitors is low, leaving you with the feeling that there's still much to discover here.
		Vilnius, with its Baroque old town, is the most architecturally beautiful of the Baltic capitals, with an easy-going charm all of its own.
	www.hotelnear.com /3363/Lithuania.html (353 words)

	Vilnius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was travelling up through to Tallin at the end of a month exchange program for medical students in Vilnius, she had arrived back in Vilnius the day before I had.
		I had asked for her phone number and if she'd spend some time with me in Vilnius the evening I met her and she must have liked me too as she said she would.
		The TV tower had been where in 1990 the Soviet troops tried to stop the independence movement by killing 14 people, outside crosses and photos help to remember their deaths.
	www.travelblog.org /Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-269.html (1053 words)

	Lithuania - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During the interwar period, the constitutional capital of Lithuania was Vilnius, although the city itself was then under Polish control (see History of Vilnius for more details).
		Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to do so, though Soviet forces unsuccessfully tried until August 1991 to suppress this secession, including an incident at Vilnius' TV Tower in January 1991 that resulted in the death of several Lithuanian civilians.
		Poles are the largest minority, mostly concentrated in southeast Lithuania (the Western Vilnius region).
	en.freepedia.org /Lithuania.html?PHPSESSID=27927dee207c10f9b438f7dbd... (1842 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Writting this letter, I stand with one foot in the kitchen, where works emergensy radio set and with the other one in the room, where is working only left Kaunas TV set.
		"That night January 12-13 I was with several thousend of people on the guard of the Vilnius TV tower.
		Our tactics were: surround the TV tower by 12 circles, being coupled by hands.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1991/1991x.html (675 words)

	Architecture of the Vilnius Television Tower - Vilnius, Lithuania
		Architecture of the Vilnius Television Tower - Vilnius, Lithuania
		It was at this tower in the waning years of the Soviet Union that more than a dozen people gave their lives as the Communists struggled to keep their empire from slipping through their fingers.
		The TV tower unites a people with its programs, and its iconic presence.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /LH/VilniusTVTower.html (215 words)

	Views of Vilnius from Gediminas Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Return to the main Lithuania page, see part 2 of Vilnius sights, or sightsee in the Jewish areas of Vilnius.
		Another tourist kindly took our picture at the top of Gediminas Tower, although the background is a part of town with lots of Soviet-era architecture.
		In the distance, you can see the (rather ugly) TV tower, where several people were killed resisting Soviet tanks in 1991.
	www.pildis.com /Lithuania2002/tower.html (199 words)

	Lithuania
		His wife, though, was transferred to Vilnius after graduation, and he followed her then, 25 years ago, when he got a job at a radio electronics factory.
		He says that most of the record books were carried away by the communists to an archive in Vilnius, probably at the Vilnius library.
		She lived in both Vilnius and Kleipeda before moving back to Panevezys when she was a girl.
	www.scripps.edu /~pulokas/genealogy/LithuaniaPulokasVisit1992.htm (8491 words)

	Combat Mokytojas
		I arrived on the third and final bus of the day at 8:20pm in minus 10 degrees C. Dainius had already waited on the previous two buses in case I was on them, carried my suitcase to the flat and even had his mother bake me a pizza when I arrived.
		After viewing the Old Town of Vilnius from a hill, Vilnius being without doubt, the most beautiful city I have ever seen, we met back up with the bus at Vilnius TV Tower, the 4th tallest building in Europe, a free standing monolith that dominates the Vilnius Skyline.
		Outside the Tower is where the 13 protesters in 1991 were crushed under the Russian Tank Treads.
	www.geocities.com /greatgoth/page1.html?200411 (3858 words)

	3.12: The Russian (Media) Revolution
		California, at the world headquarters of Internews, a thriving American nonprofit organization dedi-cated to developing private TV in Russia, I recalled Bogoroz's hoarse voice echoing from her Moscow kitchen.
		And in the burgeoning TV markets of the hinterlands, local state and nascent independent stations are continuously engaged in a lively battle for ratings and advertisers.
		Russian TV still has no sitcoms, but, thanks to more funding from the Agency for International Development, Internews is moving further into the entertainment realm.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.12/meier_pr.html (4137 words)

	VILNIUS: TV tower
		At the height of 190 metres a survey ground and a restaurant are arranged.
		On January 13th, 1991 Russian soldiers wanted to occupy the TV Tower.
		Lots of people gathered round it to defend the Tower and Lithuanian independence.
	discovery.ot.lt /cfair98/vilnius/vil_tele.htm (97 words)

	Pharma Algorithms > Innovators in Silico
		The goals of the company were then defined provide robust software tools for the analysis, screening, and algorithm development.
		Pharma Algorithms company offices are located in Toronto, Canada with a European Sales and Development office in Vilnius, Lithuania.
		Located nearby, the PA software developers maintain an ongoing rapport with the Faculty of Chemistry of 420 year-old Vilnius University.
	ap-algorithms.com /company.htm (197 words)

	Wired 3.12: The Russian (Media) Revolution
		"When the people can see the news on TV, the state can't hide the truth from them," she insisted to me four years ago, as she carefully unpacked a plastic bag of eggs - separating the good ones from the broken ones.
		In the post-Soviet era, television has been both a source of power struggles and a means for their resolution.
		Hoffman and his cohorts, of course, cannot claim all the credit, but the regional stations they've helped to stand on their own are forming the bulwark of Russia's first free electronic mass media.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.12/meier.html?pg=6&topic= (718 words)

	Andrew’s Blog » Vilnius TV Tower
		One of the must do things if you ever visit Vilnius is to have a meal in the TV tower restaraunt.
		Why you would ever visit such a funny country, or where it is even loacted are subjects for another article entirely.
		In this photo you can see a fine collection of soviet style appartment blocks and a sample of all the open space and forests that populate Vilnius.
	www.andrewsblog.net /wp-trackback.php?p=22 (197 words)

	Erel - Rental of apartments and accomodation in Tallinn
		apartment with natural wooden floors, pastel colours and pieces of antique furniture give this apartment a very special atmosphere. There is a double bed (160 x 200 cm) and bedside tables, sitting area with unfolding sofa, 2 armchairs, TV and coffee table and a kitchen corneritchen.
		Facilities: Double bed (160 x 200 cm) and bedside table, sitting area with unfolding sofa, 2 armchairs, TV and coffee table and a kitchen.
		Sofa, SAT TV, coffee table, lunch table with 4 chairs, mirror in the living room.
	www.erel.ee /index.php/page_id/356 (3430 words)

	Wired
		Feisty, independent, market-driven TV has taken root across the former Soviet Union, thanks largely to the efforts of some ex-movement boomers and their California-based (and Soros-backed) Internews.
		We spoke of the revolution in progress, and I asked her the eternal Western question: "Could the clock be turned back?" "Never," she shot back.
		Last spring when I was in Humboldt County, California, at the world headquarters of Internews, a thriving American nonprofit organization dedicated to developing private TV in Russian, I recalled Bogoroz's hoarse voice echoing from her Moscow kitchen.
	www.internews.org /articles/1990s/Wired.html (4144 words)

	CONFERENCE, MEETINGS, SEMINARS / Social Programme - Travel agency VISIT LITHUANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Vilnius sightseeing tour (~3 hours) is what you have to do for being able to tell your mum anything about where you have spent your weekend.
		Trip to Trakai (28 km form Vilnius) – ancient capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		Party on the streets of Vilnius on open yellow sight-seeing “Cabriolet”.
	www.visitlithuania.net /conference/pages/conf_social.shtml (438 words)

	TV tower Vilnius \| Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The blog ceased to exist - so here I am writing about 5 weeks after the events (again).
		Vilnius lies in the mainly flat and forested countryside of Lithunia, situated close to the Russian border in the South-East of the country.
		Founded in the 1320's by Duke Gediminas after a dream the city has lots of historic buildings, and statues.
	www.travelblog.org /Photos/777.html (123 words)

	Vitautas Landsbergis: In January 1991 I Received Phone Threats from General Ushopchik :: Charter'97 :: News :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The leader of the Conservative party of Lithuania Vitautas Landsbergis has records of phone conversations with Ushopchik dating back to January 1991, in which the general threatened to use force against the protesters.
		Member of Sojm, social-democrat Nikolai Medvedev and writer Vidmante Yasukaitite said that in January 1991 Vladimir Ushopchik disobeyed Moscow’s order to open fire and was dismissed as a commander of the division and Vilnius garrison, while the command over operation was passed over to lieutenant-colonel Aslan Maskhadov.
		He was the head of the Vilnius garrison and upon his command tanks and armored vehicles had been thrown at unarmed civilians.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2003/01/31/ushopchik (386 words)

	Lithuania - Topix.net
		VILNIUS, December 28 - Russian and Lithuanian customs services have signed an agreement on electronic declaration of transit cargoes transported via the Baltic republic to and from Russia's westernmost...
		Grave digging researchers from Vilnius University and Universite de la Mediterranee from Marseille, France have looked at remains of 5 body lice buried together with Napoleon's soldiers in Vilnius.
		Created: 19.12.2005 11:38 MSK, Updated: 11:38 MSK MosNews An administrative court in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has rejected a demand for the expulsion of Russian businessman Yuri Borisov.
	www.ridgeco.com /rss/4088252 (356 words)

	cafebabel.com, European current affairs magazine : comment and analysis from Europe in 7 languages
		Extreme reality formats flood our TV market, with 'emotainment' and container romance on the rise
		German supernanny: 'emotainment' Amélie Nothomb: death camps and TV holocaust
		Building a new metro line, dreams of a modern museum quarter, and nurturing its football-playing talent for Europe's glistening fields.
	cafebabel.com /en (370 words)

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