On 28 April, Monday, Lithuania hosted the 6th March of the Living, which is dedicated to Yom HaShoah - the Holocaust Remembrance Day - in Israel and in many other countries, and commemorates the tragedy of the whole of humanity, honours the victims of the Holocaust and Righteous Among the Nations.

On April 28 Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) General Sir Adrian Bradshaw paid a visit to Vilnius. General A. Bradshaw met with Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Lieutenant General Arvydas Pocius, and representatives of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.

On April 26 a company-sized element of the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team was deployed to Lithuania to carry out bilateral exercises based on collective defence tasks with Lithuanian military. The U.S. paratroopers arrived in the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai in two U.S. C-130s.

Life in plastic is not so fantastic after all. Plastic bags have been blamed for polluting the environment, especially aquatic ecosystems. In April MEPs voted in favour of halving the consumption of lightweight plastic bags by 2017 and reducing it by 80% by 2019 compared to 2010 levels. The topic of last month's guest photographer contest was plastic bags. The winning photo illustrates this article.

Vilnius city brand, which will be first presented at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in May 2014.

Biofuel price in Baltpool energy exchange continued to fall on Wednesday. In this week's auction biofuel price fell by 20% compared to the average price in March and on average stood at LTL 513.29 (EUR 148.66) per toe (tonne of oil equivalent).

Vilnius Airport at the summer season 2014 offers regular flights to Vilnius from 42 cities of Europe, from 52 airports in 26 countries, the Airport said in a statement.

Lithuanian Government will continue to pursue that the standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica connecting the Baltic States would go through Vilnius.

Airline company Air Lituanica is to add one more destination to the summer season flight schedule and is to offer flights to the Danish town Billund. This destination shall become the ninth European city that can be reached from Vilnius International Airport with Air Lituanica.

Heads of state are not panicking because of sanctions imposed by Russia against Lithuania's businesses. According to President Dalia Grybauskaite and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, Russia itself will feel the negative effect of such step.