The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

  • Zahtu@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Well great thing. What will this mean to the Kaliningrad Region of Russia. As it is not directly connected to Russia and landlocked by Lithuania and Poland.

    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That is an interesting thought exercise. Would they really be cut off, and what would the impacts look like? I don’t know anything about Kaliningrad internal sustainability, but could guess it’s… not good. Time to annex?

      • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Unless you are proposing a genocide (which I hope not), Königsberg is full of russians, which I doubt many countries would want to deal with right now.

        It is (or it was) the major military seaport in the baltic… and we are speaking about russia. They most likely generate their own power.

        On the long run, i think it should be annexed by the EU as a common land for the whole union.

        Edit: Just checked, they mainly produce energy with gasoil and are apparently currently importing energy from EU to satisfy internal demand. They also have a nuclear power plant of 2,34 MW (2 VVER) under construction. They built it under the idea of producing energy to export but as they failed to find buyers, construcción was halt.

        • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          On the long run, i think it should be annexed by the EU as a common land for the whole union

          What about we turn it into a great nudist LGBTQ+ friendly resort? With rainbows and unicorns and blahajs and what not.

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        As a Pole, I want Kaliningrad to be renamed to Królewiec (or Kralovec for that matter), all Russians deported and the land split evenly for Czechs and Slovaks so that they finally get their sea access.