Russia's gas giant Gazprom this year has offered a new pricing for buyers in Lithuania that has made its natural gas more expensive.

Lithuanian customs officers detained 424 kilos of drugs and launched 111 pre-trial investigations into drug smuggling.

Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports), the operator of three Lithuania's international airports, last year saw its passenger traffic grow by an annual 11.3 %, to 4.2 mln., and the number of flights increase by 5.7 %, to 50,000, and expects the number of passengers to continue growing this year.

On 7–17 January 2016, the Seimas are hosting a number of events to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Defence of Freedom of Lithuania. The commemoration will focus on the events of 1991, when the people of Lithuania resisted the Soviet aggressors and defended the independence of the country through their strong determination and dedicated actions.

The average price of electricity in Nord Pool Spot's Lithuanian bidding area surged by 50.7 % last week from a week earlier to 54.4 euros per megawatt-hour (MWh) as cold weather boosted power consumption in the country, Litgrid said on Monday.

The Latvian airline airBaltic has achieved +16% increase of future bookings for 2016 compared to the same period a year earlier for flights linking the Baltic region with Europe, Scandinavia, CIS and the Middle East.

Lithuania's biomass heating technologies supplier Enerstena will build a 6-million-euro, 20-megawatt (MW) biomass boiler plant in Belarus, marking its first project in the neighboring country.

The Supreme Court of Lithuania set aside the decisions of the Vilnius Regional Court and the Lithuanian Court of Appeal, upholding the complaint submitted by the road and bridge construction companies, Latvijas Tilti and Kauno Keliai. The Court confirmed that the terms of reference in the procurement of the construction works of two viaducts on the Vilnius-Kaunas road, amounting to EUR 12.5 million, artificially limited competition, and the signed contract is unlawful. The Court ruling is final and unappealable.

Lithuania's unemployment rate stood at 9 % in early January, up by 0.6 %age points compared with a month ago, but down by 0.3 points year-on-year, data from the country's Labor Exchange showed on Tuesday.