It has been discussed long if this visa in fact shall look like a credit card and a magnetic strip or an OCR-area, in order to handle a big number of travellers.

Soon most EU countries will issue this sort of ID cards, and Russia will probably have to accept that their Kaliningrad pass in fact will look like a B-class EU ID-card.

Then the €1M question comes: Who will first make an agreement with the EU - Visa or EC/MC...?

Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: L. A. Nadybal [mailto:lnadybal@...]
Sent: 11. november 2002 16:43
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] New Kaliningrad Transit Pass

A news story appears today at the URL below about the Russian president signing a treaty with the European Union, in which the EU will compromise on the issue of Russians in the Kaliningrad needing a visa to transit neighboring states to Russia. http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_673467_1_A,00.html