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The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed appeals in a case in which Ylya Vorobyov, an 82-year-old former KGB officer, was charged with genocide for his role in the arrest of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in 1956.

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Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a significant Lithuanian partisan leader
Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a significant Lithuanian partisan leader
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Kristina Petrošienė, the court's spokesman, told BNS that the Court of Appeals upheld the Kaunas Regional Court's ruling, issued last year, to sentence Vorobyov to two years of restriction of freedom.

Vorobyov asked to the Court of Appeals to acquit him, while prosecutors asked to sentenc

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