I went to the Latvian - Russian borden for several times in 2008. The situation there was a great problem already for a long time and it has worsened during last couple of years. A queue of traffic reaches about 30 km and drivers had to wait for several days to cross the border. The queues started to grow after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the renewed independence of Latvia in 1991, when border controls were reintroduced. The drivers said that the problem is even more serious on the Russian side, where there is just one person working on a computer and checking all the necessary information. Corruption is also a big problem.