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Flags used by separatists in Kaliningrad based on the flag of East Prussia. Since the early 1990s there has been a proposal for independence of the Kaliningrad Oblast from Russia and the formation of a "fourth Baltic state" by some of the local people.
1 dzień temu · The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is located on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania. It is the northern half of the former German province of East Prussia, which fell to the Soviet Union ...
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.
8 lip 2022 · Now tensions are building around Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave bordered by Poland and Lithuania, because of another war — Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine. My train entered Russia, going ...
2 lis 2021 · Since Soviet times, Russian analysts have mused about the possibility that Germany might try to recover Kaliningrad, or East Prussia as it was known before Joseph Stalin seized it at the end of World War II. Later, during the 1990s, they focused on the risk that the non-contiguous Russian oblast might break away and form a fourth Baltic republic.
23 sie 2024 · Kaliningrad Oblast, the central region of the former East Prussia acquired by the Soviet Union following World War II, shares land borders only with EU member states Poland and Lithuania. The region covers an area of 15,100 square kilometers (according to Rosstat as of the beginning of 2024).
15 maj 2023 · The Soviet Union’s Red Army captured it from the Germans in April 1945 in one of the last combat operations in East Prussia. After the war, Konigsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in honor of the head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Kalinin.
