and continue their life cycle in the spring ilona valynets yuri kornilovich natalia ignatenko vladislav lopatin news. the grains thrown more than two decades ago into the soil of the union state today bring significant fruits and give tangible shoots, belarus-russia are working to strengthen the economy. among our partners about 80 russian regions for cooperation. there are no barriers. even if they sometimes try to close the way for our products in the literal sense, the kaliningrad region, an example of this is lithuania blocking transit for entire groups of goods, supporting the methods of economic warfare, but as practice shows, our close ties cannot be broken, neither by sanctions, nor by distances, nor by efforts individual politicians. our correspondent olga onishchenko was convinced of this in our section kaliningrad, nowhere closer. the westernmost point of russia, its outpost in the baltic the belarusian diaspora here is one of the largest belarusians, they moved en masse after the war, took root, and these ties today are stronger than a thousand. so, kaliningrad is closer to nowhere