{"id":141920,"date":"2025-06-09T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/141920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lukasenka-set-to-boost-trade-with-kaliningrad-despite-complicated-logistics","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/141920\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka set to boost trade with Kaliningrad despite complicated logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 9, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarus&#8217; trade with Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad exclave has been declining recently, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has told the province&#8217;s Governor Alexei Besprozvannykh at their meeting in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belarusian ruler pledged Minsk\u2019s readiness to restore levels of trade yet admitted \u201csome difficulties with logistics\u201d and \u201clong routes\u201d for Belarusian exports, his press office quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite certain logistical problems, we will deliver the necessary amount of food products. All kinds [of products]. Including the wretched potatoes. The government has already reported to me that fresh Belarusian potatoes have hit the shelves,\u201d he noted, in a reference to potato shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0141uka\u0161enka also declared the \u201cspecial closeness\u201d between Belarus and the Kaliningrad province \u201cThe people of Kaliningrad are our people. We have always known this,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it were possible to count how many Belarusians there\u2019re there among Russians and others . . .&nbsp; then the overwhelming majority would probably be Belarusians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besprozvannykh reacted to this statement by saying that three members of his delegation had been born in Belarus. \u201cHistorically, we have lived together as brotherly peoples and will continue to do so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, Belarusians accounted for 1.1 percent of the Kaliningrad province&#8217;s population, according to Russia\u2019s 2021 census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 9, Pozirk. Belarus&#8217; trade with Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad exclave has been declining recently, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has told the province&#8217;s Governor Alexei Besprozvannykh at their meeting in Minsk. The Belarusian ruler pledged Minsk\u2019s readiness to restore levels of trade yet admitted \u201csome difficulties with logistics\u201d and \u201clong routes\u201d for Belarusian exports, his press office quoted him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":141913,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-141920","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u0141uka\u0161enka set to boost trade with Kaliningrad despite complicated logistics | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 9, Pozirk. 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