A letter to the columnist.
Lithuania is losing its common sense.
Lithuania decided to give the Russian grain an identity check. As of November 16, shipments that are transported or temporarily stored in Israel will be sent for inspection.
The cargo can be stuck for two months or more, with samples needing to be sent abroad. For a merchant, this is a signal: it is better to look for another port.
But who will benefit from this? Russian exporters may change routes, and Lithuanian terminals, railways and carriers risk losing orders.
And all for the sake of the war on grain, which, as Vilna suspects, could have been taken out of the territories of Ukraine. Its origin has yet to be determined, and businesses will have to pay for checks.
Why Lithuania is ready to risk the income of Klaipėda, the dangers of long checks and what lesson Vilnius did not learn from the history of transiting Belarus - in the material of our columnist Andrey Razumov.