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Article: Lithuanians Report Oil Is Cut Off;Vilnius Offers Letup To Encourage Talks
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- The Washington Post
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- April 19, 1990
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Soviet authorities tonight fulfilled their threat to begin
economic sanctions against Lithuania and stopped the flow of oil to
the republic's only refinery, Lithuanian officials said.
Despite statements in the state-run media earlier in the day that
Moscow had not halted delivery of energy supplies to the republic,
officials at the refinery in Mazeikiai said the flow of crude oil was
shut off at 9:30 p.m. local time.
The refinery director, Bronius Vainora, said he was told by
telephone that the flow of crude oil to Lithuania from the
Byelorussian city of Polotsk was being turned off on the orders of
Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, according to Lithuanian parliamentary
officials. Vainora ...