Independence Day (Tajikistan) the country. In Dushanbe, started the rally of supporters of opposition parties, where they are required to convene an extraordinary session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tajikistan, the declaration of independence and the resignation of management of the Tajik SSR, suspension Communist party activity. Extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR was convened. On September 9, 1991 at the session Shuro Oli (Supreme Council) a Resolution and Declaration "On State Independence of the Republic of Tajikistan" was adopted. According to the law "On the feast days", September 9 which is officially known as "Day
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic March 1990, with the Reconstituent Seimas declaring Lithuania's independence restored. Since Lithuania's membership in the USSR was considered a violation of the international law and void, there was no formal procedure of secession from the USSR. Lithuania declared sovereignty on its territory on 18 May 1989 and declared independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990 as the Republic of Lithuania. Lithuania was the first Baltic state to assert state continuity and the first Soviet Republic to remove "Soviet" from its name (though not the first Soviet Republic to assert its national sovereignty and the supremacy of its national