The issuance of identification documents in Lithuania has been temporarily disrupted by technical problems, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė received world leaders’ messages of congratulations on the Centennial of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania. The heads of foreign states wished Lithuania and all its people prosperity and every success.

According to the data of the Population Register Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, the number of residents in the Vilnius District Municipality is increasing every year since 2008. In 2017, 254 new residents declared their place of residence in Vilnius district. According to the data from the beginning of January 2018, about 103 thousand people live in the district of Vilnius.

“We will celebrate an unprecedented housewarming party on the weekend”, said Lionginas Šepetys, Director of real estate group “Urban Inventors”, the owner of the exclusively-shaped Green Hall building. Nearly 150 guests, who can surely be called the elite of “fintech” and “blockchain”, will officially inaugurate the first international “Blockchain Center Vilnius” in Europe.

The Lithuanian government on Monday gave the green light for splitting Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) into three separate companies for passenger and freight transportation and infrastructure management.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Samsung’s Executive Vice-President Won-Kyong Kim and head of Samsung Electronics Baltics Byung Hee Choi. At the meeting, investment possibilities through the establishment of research and development and engineering centers as well as manufacturing divisions in Lithuania were discussed.

Stock decline on the US, Asian and European markets will not affect Lithuania's economy, as it does not feature characteristics of bubbles, economists say, adding that bourse movement could revise prices of shares quoted on the stock exchanges of the three Baltic states.

On the occasion of the centenary of the restoration of the state of Lithuania, residents and guests of Vilnius will be able to travel free of charge in buses and trolleybuses of the celebrating capital city on the 16th of February! Vilnius invites to celebrate the statehood and to take the opportunity to use public transport to conveniently go to an abundance of events held to commemorate the centenary o the state free of charge.

The Commission, which consists of the municipality Administration, the Department of Physical Education and Sports, representatives of the Ministry of the Interior, and experts of PB “Invest Lithuania” and PB “Central Project Management Agency”, familiarised itself with the preliminary non-binding proposal regarding the multifunctional complex on Šeškinė hills, which was submitted by UAB “Axis Industries”. The proposal was presented by Damon Lavelle, an architect from Great Britain. He represents the company “Populous”, which has designed 26 stadiums, including UEFA category 4 stadiums.

Universal conscription of young men to Lithuania's Armed Forces would require about 400 million euros, while conscription of young women would require nearly four times as much, the Defense Ministry said on February 7th.