tyle="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal">After the proclamation
of Lithuanian independence in 1990, Soviet attempts to suppress the rebellion
focused on the Sitkūnai Radio Station. They were defended by the citizenry of
Kaunas. Pope John Paul II made the Holy Mass for the faithful of the
Archdiocese of Kaunas at the Kaunas Cathedral Basilica and held the meeting
with the young people of Lithuania at S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, during
his visit to Lithuania in 1993. Kaunas natives Vytautas Landsbergis and Valdas
Adamkus became the Head of state in 1990, and, respectively, in 1998 and 2004.
Since the restoration of independence, improving substantially air and land
transport links with Western Europe have made Kaunas easily accessible to
foreign tourists
