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. About this on the air «Soloviev Live» said 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 your grandmother's ears to spite”, we will make sure that the money that they used to earn, we will earn, — said Alikhanov.
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 supplied 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— essential.
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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, the representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, did not specify what specific measures were in question.
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