A professor at the Lithuanian War Academy, Algimantas Ambrazevicius suggested building the tunnel under Polish territory at the closest point between Kaliningrad and Belarus, which has a political union with Russia.
"It would cost about 2 billion euros and the EU should help co-finance the construction," he said.
Using electric trainstrains could make the trip in about one hour, he believes.
A former German territory with 1 million inhabitants, Kaliningrad is separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuania and Poland, which plan to require visas for Kaliningrad residents from July 2003 as they prepare to join the EU in 2004.
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