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Kaliningrad Oblast (dark green) of Russia (light green) within Europe. Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область, romanized: Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ) is the westernmost federal subject of the Russian Federation, in Central and Eastern Europe. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea.The oblast is surrounded by two European Union and NATO members.


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Russia's smallest oblast (region) of Kaliningrad is an exclave located 200 miles away from the border of Russia proper. Kaliningrad was a spoil of World War II, allocated from Germany to the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference that divided Europe between the allied powers in 1945.The oblast is a wedge-shaped piece of land along the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania, approximately one.


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During the Soviet period, the Kaliningrad oblast or region, administratively part of the Russian Federation, was separated from the rest of Russia, more than 300km to the east, by the then Soviet.


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The Kremlin has reacted furiously after a Polish government body advised using a different name for Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea coast. The Polish committee said the city and.


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Kaliningrad is home to one of Russia's only ice-free European ports - the other is on its Arctic coast. Wojciech Szelag apologised to LGBT people for the TVP Info channel's "hateful words.


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Kaliningrad, oblast (region), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year. Administratively, the oblast was made part of.


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There was a time when Russia touted Kaliningrad as a symbol of its links with European culture. In the 1990s, the Russian authorities promoted Kaliningrad's past ties to Germany to help attract.


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Kaliningrad is Russia's westernmost region, or oblast. It is an exclave, meaning it shares no borders with mainland Russia. It spans an area of 15,000 square kilometers (5,830 square miles.


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For Russia, it makes sense to make a stink, and hype up the impact of Western sanctions on the 430,000 or so Russians who live in Kaliningrad. Russia wants to divert attention from its war in.


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As Russia's westernmost federal entity, the Kaliningrad Oblast occupies 15,000 sq km and houses under 1 million people. Russia is divided into 85 such oblasts, or states. It is situated almost 300-km away from mainland Russia, and shares no borders with it.


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A local border traffic agreement with Poland (which lasted from 2012 to 2016, allowing Kaliningrad residents visa-free travel to nearby Polish provinces for up to 30 days) fostered ties with Europe and helped shape the identity of the people in the region as "Russian Europeans." Slowly, people began to acknowledge their city's German past.


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Lyudmila Putina, the Russian president's ex-wife, was born here in 1958. A key outpost for the Soviet military, the entire Kaliningrad region was strictly off-limits to foreigners until 1991.


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Kaliningrad, Russia. The old town of Königsberg ("King's Mountain") grew up around the fortress built in 1255 by the Teutonic Knights on the advice of Přemysl Otakar II, king of Bohemia, after whom the place was named. Its first site was near the fishing town of Steindamm, but, after its destruction by the Prussians in 1263, it was.


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Now, a satirical petition launched by Czechs to do just that has been signed by over 13,000 people. Kaliningrad—known as Královec in Czech—sits 412 miles west of the rest of Russia.


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In 2002, the EU and Moscow reached an agreement on travel between Russia and Kaliningrad, ahead of Poland and Lithuania joining the European Union in 2004. When those countries joined, the exclave.


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The GPS signal was interfered with for about 30 minutes while the plane flew close to Russia's Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, they said.. killing two people and wounding 12, local officials said.