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Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis hit and injured a pedestrian while driving his car on Tuesday morning.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains the most favored politician in the country, followed by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday.

Economist Gitanas Nausėda took the lead on the list of potential candidates for president in the December poll of Spinter Tyrimai (Spinter Surveys), delfi.lt news portal said on Monday.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday went to Lithuania's second city Kaunas on Sunday to pay tribute to the memory of World War II-era diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust.

Here are some of the major events to watch for in Lithuania's politics, culture and society in 2018:

The mayor of Kaunas and the Vytis Support Foundation signed on Thursday an agreement for a statue of the Lithuanian national symbol Vytis, originally proposed for Vilnius' central Lukiškių Square, to be erected in Lithuania's second-biggest city by July 6, 2018.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains the most favoured politician of the country, followed by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday.

Lithuania's residents would mainly back Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and economist Gitanas Nausėda in a presidential race, if it was held at the moment, shows a survey published on delfi.lt news portal on Monday.

Nerijus Numavičius, the majority shareholder of Vilniaus Prekyba (Vilnius Trade, remains the richest person in Lithuania with an estimated wealth of 1.4 billion euros, according to a list of the country's wealthiest people published by the Top magazine.

The popularity of Visvaldas Matijošaitis, mayor of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas, continues growing, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday.