Brussels is preparing a document allowing goods to enter the Russian exclave, MEP Petras Austrevicius has claimed European Union officials have drafted a document that would allow the transit of sanctioned goods between Russia and its European exclave, Kaliningrad, Lithuanian MEP Petras Asutrevicius claimed on Saturday. Lithuania has banned the flow of certain goods in…

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The measures were supposed to bring Moscow to its knees, but all they’ve really achieved is to make everyone in Europe poorer By Ivan Timofeev, programme director of the Valdai Club. Foreign media and analysts are increasingly accepting that sanctions against Russia have failed to produce the results that were expected.