On 29 July Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with members of Misija Sibiras’19 (Mission Siberia 2019) who returned from Kazakhstan. A team of sixteen people had had a plan to go to Krasnoyarsk in Russia this year, however, their visa applications were rejected as was the case last year, too.

Kormotech, a leading Ukrainian pet food manufacturer, is launching the construction of a new production facility in the central Lithuanian town of Kedainiai.

The Lithuanian Center of Registers launched on Tuesday its initiative to provide free access to anonymized data sets by opening up data on real estate.

Ride-hailing service Bolt is set to launch its electric scooter rent service in Vilnius.

As soon as this year, a plane spotting area is to emerge next to the territory of Vilnius Airport which is to be designed for the public. A construction contract has been signed with Ginstata company which is to complete the works in the land plot of the airport by the middle of October and will install an exclusive object here.

Lithuania's state run airport operator Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports) serviced 3.09 mln passengers in the first half of this year, up 5% from 2.954 mln passengers from the same period last year.

Polish-owned Lithuanian crude refiner Orlen Lietuva appears to have imported a cargo of Russian oil contaminated with organic chloride.

Roman Ruzhechko, a Russian businessman suspected of playing a role in this year's contaminated oil crisis in Central and Eastern Europe, has been detained in Vilnius.

In 2016, 5.1 mln persons died in the European Union (EU), some 80 000 less than in the previous year. One third of these deaths occurred to people aged less than 75 (1.7 mln, 33%), whilst 1.5 mln people died between the ages of 75 and 85 (29%) in 2016. 1.9 mln deaths concerned people aged 85 and over (38%), informed Eurostat.

Participants of the annual Mission Siberia departed for Kazakhstan after a ceremony at Vilnius Railway Station on Wednesday.