1.3 million euros – the same amount spent Lithuania for the erection of a fence on the border with Kaliningrad region, belong to Russia. This is the BBC.
Between Lithuania and Russia now have a six-foot fence length 45 kilometers. The country took only a year to implement his plan in life.
As representatives of the Lithuanian border service, the fence is not built as a barrier for Russian military equipment, but as a means of combating smuggling and illegal migration.
But Lithuanian politicians believe that vozvedenie obstacles pain functionality. As said the Deputy Arvydas, Anusauskas the fence prevents any penetration into the country from outside. He stressed that a particular motivation was the «European and Ukrainian context».
Probably, the decision of Lithuania due to concerns from the European Union that the situation with Ukraine could be repeated in other European country.
«I think the fence in this case is the element of a certain psychological comfort that they want to create for themselves the border guard fence est, surveillance est, all technical means», – said Anusauskas.
The Russian media about a year ago, has signaled that along the border with Kaliningrad, Latvia and Lithuania will build the so-called The great Baltic wall. In Russia tease «timid» the Baltic States, considering that one of their most expensive projects – a waste of money.
