Kaliningrad
US troops, Patriot missiles in Poland spark Russian concern
May 28, 2010By Hilary Heuler U.S. troops and Patriot missile batteries arrived in Poland this week, where they will be stationed in the northern town of Morag, just 64 kilometers from the Russian border. The training mission ties Poland more firmly to NATO, but...
Two Soviet hitherto secret moves with present-day implications
May 24, 2010By Paul Goble The Moscow media are reporting two hitherto secret political moves at the end of Soviet times – a suggestion by a Soviet official in 1990 that Moscow was prepared to discuss returning part of Kaliningrad to Germany and a question...
Russia: Kaliningrad protesters demand freedom, Putin's resignation
March 21, 2010By Gregory Feifer Authorities stifle antigovernment protests in Kaliningrad Some 2,000 protesters chanted "Freedom!" during an unsanctioned protest under steady rain on a grim Soviet-era square in Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad...
Russia: Kaliningrad protests force region health minister to resign
March 10, 2010By Paul Goble Yesterday, Elena Lyuikova, the Kaliningrad health minister, retired “at her own request,” according to Russian media, but because local political activists had staged 63 demonstrations over the last 18 months calling...
Kaliningraders want to live like Poles or Lithuanians
March 04, 2010By Paul Goble The residents of Kaliningrad are protesting because they would like to live as well as their neighbors in Poland and Lithuania, a motivation many in Moscow find it difficult to fathom because many Russians view Eastern Europe as poor...
Moscow feeling ‘ground is shifting under its feet’
March 03, 2010By Paul Goble Popular protests in Kaliningrad, Pikalevo, Baikalsk and other cities have left the powers that be in Moscow feeling that “the ground is shifting under [their] feet,” generating fear in some quarters and hope in others that...
To become part of Russia is desirable for Transnistria, but is hardly achievable
December 29, 2009Transnistria's special representative for parliamentary ties with other unrecognized states Grigory Marakuta, who had chaired the Transnistrian supreme soviet [parliament] for nearly 2 decades, thinks that accession to Russia is indeed very desirable...
David Smith: Obama Missile Defense Blunder
September 28, 2009By DAVID SMITH The U.S. decision to cancel deployment of a ballistic missile defense system in Central Europe in favor of boosting shorter-range defenses creates immediate policy problems for the Obama administration: It shreds agreements with the...
Russia's Sakhalin residents want to be part of Japan
August 12, 2009By Paul Goble Sakhalin Residents Petition to Have Their Territory Transferred to Japan A group of Sakhalin residents, after a visit to Tokyo, are not only studying Japanese but also collecting signatures on a petition asking that Moscow hand over...
Analysis: Russia warns of missile forward-deployment in Kaliningrad region
July 09, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On July 4, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov warned that Russia could deploy medium-range missiles in the Kaliningrad oblast -- opposite Lithuania and Poland -- if the United States turns down Russia...