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Vytautas Landsbergis named honorary citizen of Vilnius
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Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania s first post-independence leader, was named an honorary citizen of Vilnius on Wednesday.
“Without the effort and the courage of this person three decades ago, Vilnius and Lithuania would be different today,” Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius said in a press release.
“Vilnius already has a nice group of honorary citizens, but it is obvious that this person deserves respect more than anyone else,” he added.
Landsbergis led the struggle for restoration of Lithuania s independence in the last years of the Soviet rule and chaired the Supreme Council meeting on March 11, 1990, when it declared independence from the USSR.