出版社：Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
摘要：The study makes an effort to elaborate the question, how Russian political, geopolitical and economic dependencies and aspirations may influence transit transport flows related to the trade between the European Union and Russia, and on Russian decisions to invest in trans-port infrastructures. The factors influencing on the choice of export transit transport corri-dors range from a number of long-term economic and geo-political security considerations of the Russian energy sector to a short-term needs to exert pressures to gain political bene-fits. Thus, three factors seem to have a major impact on the direction and volume the tran-sit transport: 1) Russian national geo-strategic security considerations aiming at the main-tenance of economic autarchy and spheres of interest, 2) the structure of trade between the European Union and Russia, and 3) the unwillingness of Russia to purchase from the new border republics transit transport services, available for free during the FSU era. Finally, the study contains statistics on the volumes and values of the transit transport flows be-tween the European Union and Russia by commodity groups and by corridors (Ukraine-Slovakia, Poland-Belarus, Lithuania-Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland).
