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Lithuania marks the 30th anniversary of Vilnius's Bloody Sunday today. This is the name given to the events of 13 January 1991, when Soviet troops attempted to stage a coup in Lithuania, which had declared independence the previous year in March. More than a thousand people were injured by tanks and gunfire and fourteen people died.

Slovenia's Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs posted online a list of the names, units and wages of some 8,700 employees of the police force and Interior Ministry, including those of undercover agents and special police task force members. Observers see this as a bizarre and dangerous reaction to a dispute with the trade union, which is calling for wage increases.

Just a few days before Joe Biden's inauguration, the Democrats are set to launch impeachment proceedings against outgoing US President Donald Trump. The party introduced a resolution to this effect in the House of Representatives on Monday, charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection" before the assault on the Capitol. Europe's press is divided over the timing of the move and whether it is wise to impeach a president who has already been voted out of office.

Shortly before the publication of a book by his stepdaughter Camille Kouchner, the renowned French political scientist Olivier Duhamel has resigned from all his posts. In her book Kouchner describes how Duhamel sexually abused her brother when he was a child. French media discuss whether the taboos that still surround sexual violence in the family in France are finally crumbling.