The Essence of Economic Relations between Poland and Russia

In many cases the political factor has, to a smaller or bigger extent, decided and decides upon development, stagnation or crisis of economic relations with individual partners. Still, this refers fully to the Polish-Russian relations that can be extended also to Ukraine, Byelorussia or Lithuania. For Poland and its economy, contacts with Russia are apparently most important although we do not have a common border after the Soviet Union had broken down, except a border specific for the European situation with enclave of Królewiec, that is the Kaliningrad Region