(Machine translated from the Russian newspaper Strana Kaliningrad, 18.06.2003)
" The Great opposition "
Lithuania and Russia, seems, was finished. Russia has passed the distressful law
on the border dividing(sharing) ЛР and the Kaliningrad area. Have agreed with
neighbours and about реадмиссии - returning in the Russian Federation it
is illegal проникших to
Lithuania emigrants. The Lithuanian Republic has allowed to sell to Russians
tickets on the trains, following transit from Kaliningrad and
back.
To tell the truth, as name documents on the right of travel - the visa, the simplified transit document (УТД), simplified railway travel paper (УПДЖД) - the essence does not vary: the final decision whether to allow to follow the citizen of the Russian Federation on territory of Lithuania, remained behind the Lithuanian competent bodies. And in default Lithuanians are not obliged to explain his(its) reason. But, anyway, business from a dead point has moved. The final arrangement on transit of passengers through Lithuania is achieved, and since June, 16 preliminary sale of tickets in railway cash departments has renewed. The Russian citizen can come in cash department and at once receive the ticket in anyone уголок Russia. Tickets on children till 14 years receive either parents, or persons dependent on whom they are, the others can buy the ticket, only being in cash department personally.
For the persons having the Lithuanian visas or УТД (which will sell in the Lithuanian consulates in Kaliningrad and Советске for three years for 5 euros), tickets are sold 45 day prior to departure. For at whom such documents are not present, the ticket is sold not later than 28 hours up to a withdrawal(waste) of a train. This time is allocated(removed) to the Lithuanian party(side) for decision making. Whether have allowed to follow you transit through territory ЛР, you learn(find out) after the expiration of 28 hours from the moment of purchase of the ticket. For this purpose it is necessary to address in cash department № 14 at Southern station or to call 50-07-09, having named a series and number of the ticket, a place of his(its) purchase. In default money for the ticket come back completely. If you beforehand will not take an interest in the destiny, you will put before the fact at landing(planting) in the car.
Since July, 1 УТДЖД for citizens of the Russian Federation it is distributed to trains № 30/29 and № 150/149 Kaliningrad - Moscow - Kaliningrad, № 80/79 Kaliningrad - Saint Petersburg - Kaliningrad, № 260/259 Kaliningrad - Anapa - Kaliningrad, № 526/525 Kaliningrad - Chelyabinsk - Kaliningrad and on the through-car Kaliningrad - Murmansk - Kaliningrad, прицепляемый to trains № 150/226 and № 225/29.
At purchase of tickets the following documents are valid: diplomatic and service passports, the passport for travel abroad of the Russian Federation, the civil passport (till December, 31, 2004) and the passport with symbolics of the USSR with a mark about citizenship of the Russian Federation (till December, 31, 2003), the passport of the seaman, the certificate on returning in the Russian Federation.
Minor citizens of the Russian Federation can follow transit in support of one of parents if the data on the child and a photo are in the passport, and also in support of other persons or is independent (after 14 years) at presence of the own passport or the passport of the citizen of the Russian Federation and notarially certified consent of parents.
УТДЖД passengers will receive in a train which will be accompanied with the Lithuanian consular workers. The document is valid within three months and gives the passenger the right to come back back without check.
Victor ИЛЛАРИОНОВ Has
prepared