Russia and the EU have found a compromise in principle concerning Kaliningrad, Russia's Baltic enclave which is to be surrounded by Schengen territory when Lithuania and Poland join the EU. The deal would enable Russian citizens to travel through Lithuanian territory, using transit documents. A special document would also be available for rail travel, sources told the EUobserver.
Lithuania and Poland are striving to join the EU as early as 2004 and so Russian citizens wishing to travel ...
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