Vaizga, a Lithuanian business group operating service stations and motels as well as providing land lease and transport services, owned by the Paleicikas family, has been fined 57,400 euros in Latvia, which the group has already paid.

Lithuania's leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines, which has filed for restructuring, has a month to submit its updated business plan to the country's Civil Aviation Administration (CAA).

On 17 October the main duty-free store “Heinemann Duty Free | Travel Value” officially opened in the departure terminal of Vilnius Airport. Opened as a part of the reconstruction works in the commercial zone of Vilnius Airport, this new concept store with a walk-through design will offer more product categories, a wider range of goods and new international brand names. Exceptional attention will be paid to the goods representing Lithuanian brands.

The Seimas adopted amendments to the Law on Citizenship (draft No XIIIP-1815(3)) to ensure that the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, who are adopted into foreign families and removed from their country of origin, can preserve citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania.

Vilniaus Nacionalinis Stadionas (VNS), a company brought by the Lithuanian Supreme Court back into the bidding for the construction of a national stadium in Vilnius, is expected to file its proposal within a month or two.

The budget of the Lithuanian National radio and Television (LRT) will rise 2.8 mln euros next year, compared to this year's budget.

“According to the exercise scenario, dangerous incidents have been occurring in our region for the past 72 hours and still continue – unrest in neighbouring countries, information on planned terrorist and cyber-attacks. Therefore Lithuania has no time to lose to protect critical infrastructure. We take the decision to mobilise cyber capabilities and request the U.S. and the EU cybersecurity rapid response teams to help,” Vice Minister of National Defence Edvinas Kerza presented the scenario of cybersecurity exercises running in Lithuania on October 11.

During the first eight months of 2018, Latvian gasoline imports dropped 4% from the respective period a year ago, while diesel fuel imports fell 11.3%, according to the Central Statistical Bureau.

The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has warned of possible temporary traffic restrictions at the Medininkai checkpoint due to road repairs in Belarus on the other side of the border.

Amid an acute shortage of professional builders in Lithuania, business people expect an increasing number of third-country nationals to come to the country for work.