Waning public confidence in vaccination is a major challenge that is already affecting health, Parliament said on Thursday.

Lithuanian police detained 19 people linked to an organized crime group during a large-scale operation in the country's second-biggest city of Kaunas on April 17th.

A researcher predicts that Lithuania in 2018 may record the lowest number of births in the past 60 years.

Following a consistent increase in the passenger and flight numbers throughout the recent years, Lithuanian Airports are continuing the trend this year. In the first quarter of 2018, all three Lithuanian airports served 8 % more flights and 16 % more passengers compared to last year’s numbers. Such optimistic results suggest that by the end of the year the number of passengers served will get close to 6 million.

Milk purchase prices in Lithuania fell for the fifth month in a row in March 2018.

Statistics Lithuania informs that in March 2018, average annual inflation calculated based on the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), which is methodologically harmonised with those of other EU member states, stood at 3.7% and was by 0.2 percentage points lower than that calculated based on the consumer price index (CPI).

Vladimir Antonov, the former majority shareholder of Lithuania's bankrupt bank Snoras, was detained by Russian law-enforcement in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the Russian TV channel RBK reported.

Lithuanian Deputy Energy Minister Egidijus Purlys and Litgrid CEO Daivis Virbickas say that the planned reconstruction of two transformer substations in northeastern Lithuania and the dismantling of a line to Belarus are a key project in preparing to synchronize the Baltic power grids with the Continental European network.

The Ukrainian state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsya is about to launch the passenger service on the Kiyv-Minsk-Vilnius-Riga route.

Emigration from Lithuania in the first quarter of 2018 declined by a third from the same period last year, with more emigrants returning, Statistic Lithuania said in its latest report.