Press release, 7 October 2015
After the meeting of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia of Sweden with Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, and Members of the Board of the Seimas, the guests visited the Memorial to the Victims of 13 January.
The Swedish royal couple were briefed on the story of the restoration of Lithuania’s independence and the events of 13 January.
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Photos of the Seimas Office (author Olga Posaškova) |
The Memorial at the buildings of the Seimas perpetuates the memory of the defenders of freedom and the events of 13 January. The remaining fragment of the barricades at the Seimas buildings was integrated into the Memorial. The barricades, wooden column shrines and a column shrine bearing a statuette of Virgin Mary were covered with a spatial glass structure. Photographs of the defenders of freedom who perished in 1991 were also mounted inside it.
Rimas Rudaitis, Public Relations Unit, Communications Department, Office of the Seimas,
tel. +370 5 239 6132, e-mail: [email protected]
