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Today the overwhelming majority of Kaliningrad's residents are Russians settled after 1945, and their descendants. A minority of the population are from other Slavic ethnic groups, including Belarusians and Ukrainians. Kaliningrad today is also home to small communities of Tatars, Germans, Armenians, Poles, and Lithuanians.
21 cze 2022 · Residents of Kaliningrad have been urged not to panic buy after tensions ramped up this week. Tensions are mounting around the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, an isolated but strategically...
24 sie 2024 · Since Kaliningrad had been part of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, it remained part of Russia as an exclave, separated from the Russian mainland. Traveling from one to the other requires transit across two countries.
10 maj 2023 · 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.
9 wrz 2022 · Kaliningrad is part of Russia today because of the ruthlessness of Joseph Stalin, who saw an opportunity to punish Germany for its crimes during the Second World War and gain a valuable port at the same time. The Soviet Premier turned a German city into a Russian one, and it remains one to this day.
22 cze 2022 · 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 —...
22 sie 2023 · Kaliningrad is still of great strategic importance to Moscow. It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet at the port of Baltiysk and is the country's only ice-free European port. During the Soviet...
