Kaliningrad urged not to “freeze your ears to spite your grandmother” with a response to Lithuania

Trucks at the Chernyshevskoye checkpoint in the Kaliningrad region

The Kaliningrad region's response to the "sanctions blockade" should redirect the economic flow of the Baltic states to RUSSIA. This was announced on the air of Solovyov Live by the governor of the region Anton Alikhanov.

“I believe that these proposals should be aimed at ensuring that the economic flow and money that Lithuania and the Baltics as a whole earn should be redirected to Russia. We have such proposals. <...> We are not going to “freeze our grandmother’s ears to spite them”, we will make sure that we will earn the money that they used to earn,” Alikhanov said.

Alikhanov promised to submit proposals for a response to Lithuania this week Politics

As an example, Alikhanov cited the delivery of imported ALCOHOL to the Kaliningrad region through the Baltic states. He stated that in such cases, all imported alcohol is actually marked with a Russian excise stamp abroad.

“This led to the fact that almost 100% of imported alcohol was delivered to Lithuania or Latvia and stored there. That is, the importers who carried, paid the Lithuanians and Latvians for storage in warehouses, for the accumulation of consignments. The second time they paid for labeling, it also cost money. And the third time they paid them for the fact that their Lithuanian companies, in particular, the well-known company Girteka, delivered these products to Russia,” Alikhanov said.

The governor noted that these flows can be redirected towards Russian economic operators.

The day before, Alikhanov said that work on response measures was already underway. They will be sent to the federal center in the near future. According to him, the response measures to Lithuania that Russia can take can be varied, and their consequences for the country's economy can be significant.

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On June 18, Lithuanian Railways banned the transit of trains with certain goods between the Kaliningrad region and other regions of Russia. The list of prohibited transit for the Russian exclave includes installations for liquefying natural gas, iron and steel products, purebred horses, truffles and products from them, cigars, perfumes and more.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis explained that the country took this measure as part of the implementation of European sanctions that came into force on June 17, and did not introduce restrictions on its own. The Kremlin called these measures illegal.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow's response would lie not in the diplomatic, but in the practical plane. However, what specific measures are in question, the representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, did not specify.