(EN) Audrius Siaurasevicius, Lithuania breaks away from the Soviet Union, in The Guardian, 12 marzo 1990. URL consultato l'8 aprile 2020.
«Lithuania last night became the first republic to break away from the Soviet Union, by proclaiming the restoration of its pre-war independence. The newly-elected parliament, 'reflecting the people's will,' decreed the restoration of 'the sovereign rights of the Lithuanian state, infringed by alien forces in 1940,' and declared that from that moment Lithuania was again an independent state»