27 May â A court in Kaunas convicts Jonava District Municipality mayor Mindaugas SinkeviÃÂius of abuse of office, falsification of documents, and misappropriation and imposes a 12,500 euro-fine on him as well as a ban on holding public office for three years.
26 June â The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a â¬2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.
17 November â A section of a submarine internet cable running under the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Sweden is severed, reducing internet capacity in Lithuania by a fifth.
21 November â Gintautas Paluckas is confirmed as prime minister by the Seimas, having received 84 votes against 36 negative votes and six abstentions.
25 November â Swiftair Flight 5960: A Boeing 737-476(SF) aircraft operated by DHL for Swiftair crashes into a residential area in Vilnius, killing one person (captain) and injuring three others (2nd pilot and two assistants).
29 November â Lithuania expels three staff of the Chinese embassy in Vilnius for violations of Lithuanian law and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
December
9 December â A politician of the Homeland Union is arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia.
15 December â Lithuania bans Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze from entering the country for overseeing human rights abuses in Georgia.
18 December â The Constitutional Court strikes down the Law on the Protection of Minors from Negative Effects of Public Information, which prohibited minors from being informed about same-sex relationships, as unconstitutional.