Fuel prices in Lithuania have somewhat stabilized lately after a surge at the start of the year driven by excise tax hikes and rising crude prices.

The Board of the Bank of Lithuania has approved the sample of the physical version of the digital collector coin – an original silver coin bearing a denomination of EUR 19.18 to commemorate the year of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. LBCOIN is dedicated to this prominent Act and its 20 signatories.

Lithuania's average wholesale electricity price rose by 5 percent last week compared with a week earlier, Litgrid said on Monday.

Hungary's budget carrier Wizz Air is set to launch flights between the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and Russia's second-biggest city of St. Petersburg in June.

The European Investment Bank's office for the Baltic states has been opened in Vilnius on Thursday. The EIB hopes the new office will bring it closer to this market, provide greater capability and ensure closer cooperation with national government institutions.

Lithuania's population has grown for the first time in 28 years due to migration trends, the country's statistics office said on Tuesday.

Small shipment of LNG from Russian gas company Novatek arrived in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda on Saturday. It's the first LNG cargo from this company this year and the 14th since the new gas year started in October informed.

Lithuania's state-owned railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) carried a record number of passengers last year as it grew 6.7% to 5.5 mln.

On the last day of 2019 the number of passengers travelling via Vilnius Airport exceeded 5 million. This number signifies the biggest flow of passengers in the history of the airport, serviced by the airport per one year.

Biotechpharma, a Vilnius-based company controlled by scientist and businessman Vladas Bumelis, has founded a biotechnological pharmaceutical company in the US city of Boston, with around 25 million euros planned to be invested in the project.