“You know, I can tell a lot of stories that Kaliningrad entrepreneurs told me, from their life and interaction with Lithuanian business, which indicate that it’s not just a hand, they put on and run a puppet theater,” he said. , answering the question whether there is a sense of the presence of the United States in the history of the restriction of transit.
Alikhanov noted that if the Lithuanian authorities were guided by the interests of the country's inhabitants, they would not make such decisions.
The governor expressed confidence that such decisions of the Lithuanian authorities are not only unfavorable for the people of Lithuania, "they are detrimental to them."
On June 17, Lithuanian Railways notified Kaliningrad Railways of stopping the transit of a number of sanctioned goods from June 18.
Alikhanov said that the ban on the import and export of goods through the Baltic States to Russia is considered as a response to the restriction on transit from Lithuania.
Before that, it became known that the authorities of the Kaliningrad region had prepared a list of response measures to Lithuania's ban on overland transit of certain goods to the region.
The list was submitted for consideration to the Russian government.