Jamala of Ukraine, the winner of Eurovision 2016, arrived in Lithuania on Monday afternoon to perform in a concert for the Day of Mourning and Hope in Vilnius on June 14th.

If a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is built in the Russian Kaliningrad region, Lithuania, which is currently the transit country for the Russian giant Gazprom's gas, would feel financial consequences in 10 years at the earliest, says Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis.

Housing affordability in the first quarter of the year 2016 in Riga has considerably improved and still was the highest one among Baltic capitals, according to the latest Swedbank Baltic Housing Affordability Index (HAI). In Tallinn and Vilnius HAI also increased.

Alcohol consumption levels in Lithuania are misleading, as statistics specialists have been failing to include some factors in them, shows a new survey.

Annual per capita consumption of legal cigarettes in Lithuania rose to 55 packs in 2015, from 50 packs in 2014, figures from Statistics Lithuania showed on June 10th. The consumption of alcohol in Lithuanian edged down to 12 liters of legal absolute alcohol.

Vilnius Airport gave a water salute to greet the aircraft of Germania on the occasion of the launch of regular flights on the route Vilnius-Zürich. Air service between Lithuania and Switzerland is re-launched after a pause of eight years.

Nineteen school students aged between 14 and 17 from the war-struck Eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk are coming to Lithuania on Wednesday for a week-long training.

Lithuania's national radio and television LRT will have to pay a fine for broadcasting prohibited commercial ads, the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission decided. LRT CEO does not rule out taking the decision to court.

The international exercise Iron Wolf 2016 is kicking off in the Svencionys district, eastern Lithuania, on Monday as part of the Saber Strike training, which is the largest US-organized exercise in the Baltic States.

The European Parliament has honoured 50 people and organisations from 26 EU countries with this year's Citizen's Prize for their contribution to European cooperation and the promotion of common values. The jury, headed by Parliament Vice-President Sylvie Guillaume, selected the 2016 laureates after a consultation of the 79 proposals that made it through to the national juries.