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 “Russian Railways does not and cannot have any interests which conflict with the interests of Russia itself,” said Yakunin. “The Company’s entry onto the global market as a competitive player opens up new opportunities for realising Russia’s goals. In this respect, Russian Railways has great opportunities to realise major economic projects and strategic tasks which can help the state solve more global geopolitical tasks.”Yakunin said that the main strategic priorities were to develop transport infrastructure, first and foremost in Siberia and the Far East, to resurrect the northern sea route, construct a railway line from Yakutsk to the Baikal-Amur Main Line and increase container transit traffic. Yakunin also discussed the pros and cons of other projects with regard to Russia’s economic and strategic interests, such as building direct connections to Sakhalin and between the Trans-Siberian and the North Sea route by internal waterways, a transit bridge between Moscow and Tokyo, the Trans-Korean Main Line and routes to China.Yakunin also said that the EU’s Trans-European Transportation Network is of huge significance for the European continent and that transit routes had to be developed further with the CIS countries, especially Central Asia and the Trans-Caucasus. However, the Russian Railways president also pointed out that certain impediments were hindering the development of international transit traffic, including delays at customs and border points, insufficiently developed transport infrastructure, weight restrictions on roads, lack of through tariffs and insufficiently developed terminals etc. “Solving these problems will help the CIS countries and especially Russia to become not only a geopolitical bridge between Europe and Asia, but also the main transit corridor in international trade between these regions and greatly benefit its participants,” concluded Yakunin.Source: Press Release