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Article: RUSSIA SEEKS KALININGRAD DEAL
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- July 19, 2004
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United Press International
07-19-2004
Russia seeks Kaliningrad deal
KALININGRAD, Russia, Jul 19, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Russia needs a cargo transit deal with Europe over Kaliningrad, a senior Russian envoy said Monday.
"A future agreement with the 25-nation European Union on cargo moving through Kaliningrad is extremely important to Russia," Sergei Yastrzhembsky, President Vladimir Putin's special envoy to the EU told journalists in Kaliningrad, the Interfax news agency said.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the city of Kaliningrad, formerly the eastern German city of Konigsberg and its ...