American energy company Chevron has withdrawn from Lithuania – it has closed its office in Vilnius.

From July 4th, it is even faster and more convenient for the passengers from the neighbouring Belarus to reach the airports of Vilnius and Kaunas. Loukost, a subsidiary company of the transport group Alizana based in Minsk, launched express shuttle routes Minsk-Kaunas Airport and back. This month a stop at Vilnius Airport will be added to this route.

The richest person in Lithuania is Nerijus Numavicius, the largest shareholder of the Vilniaus Prekyba Group; even after the euro introduction he will remain a billionaire.

On July 3-5 USS OSCAR AUSTIN (DDG-79) destroyer is conducting a friendly visit to Klaipėda Seaportthat after taking part in the annual military exercise BALTOPS 2014 in the Baltic Sea in June.

Celebrating its first anniversary, the Lithuanian-capital airline Air Lituanica welcomed its 100,000th passenger this Sunday, June 30th. The airline began its history last year, on 30 June, with a flight Vilnius-Brussels-Vilnius.

A financing agreement of synagogue restoration project in Pakruojis, Lithuania, was signed. Almost LTL 2.6 million (EUR 753,000) will be allocated from of the EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanism Funds.

Over the first five months of the year 2014, Palanga International Airport (PIA) handled 5 per cent more passengers compared to the same period in 2013, Palanga International airport informs. Currently, the Scandinavian airline SAS operates regular flights to Copenhagen, airBaltic to Riga, Norwegian Air Shuttle to Oslo and RusLine to Moscow.

The State Social Insurance Fund Board in Lithuania (SoDra) began providing key statistical data in euros. During January-May 2014, SoDra's revenue totalled EUR 1.136 billion and its expenditure amounted to EUR 1.346 billion.

With a view to promoting the capital of Lithuania abroad, Vilnius City Municipality has designed a new Vilnius city brand, which was presented at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in May for the first time.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a memorial ceremony at Ypres to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. It was in Ypres, located at the center of WWI battlefields, that a chemical weapon - mustard gas - was used for the first time, causing the death of millions of people.