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In 2006, Poland’s state-controlled oil company PKN Orlen, spent $2.3 billion buying the Mazeikiu refinery in Lithuania from the troubled Russian energy firm Yukos.
Then-President Lech Kaczynski made the deal with the ambition of increasing Poland's political role in the region.
But, the venture has gone sour...for a number of reasons and actually increased tensions between the two neighbors.
“This is how the 'strategic partnership' with Lithuania ends. I hope that few Polish politicians will repeat that phrase,” reports the Polish edition of Newsweek, adding that the refinery investment “has awakened an atavistic nationalism in Lithuanians which has incorporated all their views on Poland.”
