Fourteen civilians were killed by the Soviet army in January 1991, prosecutors say. More than 700 others were wounded.
Prosecutors are also investigating whether to charge then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, now aged 84, and a decision is likely by the summer, investigating prosecutor Daiva Skorupskaite-Lisauskiene told Reuters.
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