Since the end of 2014, the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of Lithuania has distributed to 500,000 pensioners a total of EUR 82.5 million in compensation for reduced pensions.

President Dalia Grybauskaite says Lithuania's Migration Department made the right decision when it granted asylum to Russian journalist Andrei Nekrasov.

European Film Academy awards organised by the European Film Academy announced the titles of the 52 films on this year's selection list. Two Lithuanian titles among them – Peace to Us in Our Dreams directed by Sarunas Bartas and The Summer of Sangaile directed by Alante Kavaite.

On Friday in Vilnius, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius met with Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and welcomed the successful cooperation.

Lithuania plans joining a United Kingdom-led European Union Battlegroup (EUBG16-2) in the second semester of next year. The rotation will comprise units from Lithuania, Ireland, Cyprus, Latvia, Finland and Sweden.

On September 17th, Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania Rimantas Sinkevicius opened the conference introducing the EU-funded State Information Resource Interoperability Platform (SIRIP) and its new features. SIRIP is an interoperability platform offering e-services provided by the Lithuanian state and municipal institutions on a centralised basis.

The Bank of Property (Turto Bankas) has signed a buy-out agreement of the Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius for the state ownership. The deal is worth EUR 5.6 million.

Vilnius Airport has served 332 thousand passengers this August – this is the record of the capital's airport during the entire period of operation since 1932. During the last summer month of the last year, 301 thousand passengers travelled to/from Vilnius Airport by air, this year the number rose by 10%. The capital's airport expects to receive over 3 million passengers in total this year – the threshold of 2 million has been reached in mid-August.

Vilnius, 14 September 2015: Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, implements its further expansion plans in Lithuania: 4th Airbus A320 aircraft is added to its base in Vilnius airport and started 5 new routes to Billund, Munich-Memmingen, Stockholm, Glasgow and Kyiv.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the sixty-fifth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, convened for the first time in the Baltic States.