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.

This July, Lithuanian Airports are commemorating five years since consolidation of Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports. After ending the stage of faulty internal competition and becoming an airport network, offering attractive terms and conditions of cooperation for air carriers, the Company has also improved its results in aviation performance. From 2014, the number of passengers increased by 42%, including the number of offered travel routes; meanwhile, the number of provided flight‑related services increased by 60%.

The ongoing archaeological excavations of the Great Synagogue in the back yard of Vokiečių Street, situated in the centre of the capital, are continuously discovering significant artefacts. Archaeologists have found the bases of two columns belonging to the bimah, the most important platform for Torah readings. So far, the bases of the two out of four columns around the platform have been found. The latest discoveries will be accessible for general public next week, on July 17.

Vilnius will buy 50 new low-floor buses for 19.39 million euros from Adampolis, the Lithuanian partner of Germany's MAN, one of the largest bus and truck producers in the world, after it won the municipal tender.