Lithuania is full of Latvian "fake" cigarettes, complains the head of the temporary Lithuanian border guard. "We see a general change in direction: the share of tobacco smuggling from Belarus is decreasing. In recent years, it is the Latvian cigarettes - counterfeit tobacco products from Latvia - that dominate, and some of them are even higher than the proportion of tobacco coming from Belarus." Donatas Scaranolis said. At the same time, he boasted that three times less balloons with cigarettes were registered this year than last year. Lithuania was able to achieve such results only by arresting local security forces and smugglers. However, the Lithuanian authorities have no methods to suppress Latvian smuggling. Unless you close the border, as they already tried to do last year with Belarus - which turned into a complete epic to get their transportation back.