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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday called on state institutions to give the media and the public data access, calling the recent restrictions introduced by the Center of Registers disproportionate.

The Lithuanian Center of Registers is expected to reopen free access to its data for the media as early as this week under a temporary solution to be approved by the government on Wednesday.

Lithuania's government said it made a principled decision on Thursday to ensure that media representatives get free access to data from the Center of Registers.

Lithuanian journalists called on the authorities on Thursday to lift restrictions on access to data from the Center of Registers.

Experimentica, seen as one of Finland's most promising innovative companies, has established a subsidiary in Lithuania, where it plans to conduct tests with rodents and use the results in the development of medicines.

Ober-Haus housing market review shows that the first half of 2018 in the Lithuanian housing market was one of the most effective over the past decade and was comparable to those of 2016–2017 both in the apartment and private house sectors, a press release from the real estate agency states.

MG Baltic Media, a media and telecoms group indirectly owned by Lithuanian businessman Darius Mockus, last year saw its consolidated revenue drop to 57.871 million euros, down 12.1 percent from 65.858 million euros in 2016.

Saulius Urbanavičius, a former head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service, has been appointed as director of the Center of Registers.

The Lithuanian State Security Department, or VSD, continues to use a building near Vilnius that allegedly housed a secret CIA detention facility for its training center.

The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) completed on Wednesday its investigation into business and interest groups' influence on political processes and decision-makers.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis hopes Saulius Urbanavičius, former head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT), who has won the competition for the position of head of the Center of Registers, will solve the state enterprise's problems.

Saulius Urbanavičius, former head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT), has won the competition for the position of head of the Center of Registers.

Journalist Tomas Dapkus, as a middleman for the top executives of MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's biggest business groups, was allegedly involved in activities bearing the signs of blackmail, the State Security Department (VSD) said in a document.

The shadows of abuse on Lithuania's Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas and his family discredit him and damages the reputation of the rest of the government, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lithuanian Justice Minister Milda Vainiutė is stepping down from the post following criticism from President Dalia Grybauskaitė.