If all customs checkpoints between the EU and Russia are taken into account, we have – at every minute around the clock – lines of trucks stretching for tens of kilometers. A common goal should be that no truck is forced to wait more than four hours in a line before customs formalities begin.
If all customs checkpoints between the EU and Russia are taken into account, we have – at every minute around the clock – lines of trucks stretching for tens of kilometers. A common goal should be that no truck is forced to wait more than four hours in a line before customs formalities begin.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.