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Kaliningrad: Big Russia
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Kaliningrad is the name of the little dot between Poland and Lithuania which lights up when you select "Russia" in the Axis Applet. It turns out to be a Special Economic Zone entirely surrounded by newly-minted EU members.
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Kaliningrad, formerly Koenigsberg, capital of eastern Prussia until 1945, is becoming recognised as a tourist destination with a difference. An important Russian enclave, it is the most western state of the Russian federation, home to the Russian Baltic fleet in the only ice-free northern port.
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Since 2001, Kaliningrad has rapidly picked up on the positive economic trends of Russia as a whole, and to some extent ... the neighbouring countries. For five consecutive years, economic growth in Kaliningrad has been faster than the Russian average. It has become an import centre for manufactured goods from the EU and a centre for Russian exports to the world. Trade is booming in Kaliningrad, due to customs and tax benefits granted to it by the Federal Government.
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The Kaliningrad exclave lies on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Poland. It is today a part of the Russian Federation. Its population is predominately of Russian origin, with many other nationalities of the Former Soviet Union that make up the rest of the population.
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Kaliningrad is located at the western far end of boundless Russia. As an enclave situated between Poland and the Baltic states, it lives its own life even if it does not forget its Russian soul neither its language, which remained very pure. The nature is still very wild, with its swamps, its fallow fields, its immense blue skies and the Baltic coast, that foreign tourists continue to ignore in spite of its long sandy beaches.
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The Washington Times claimed 3 January 2001, citing anonymous intelligence reports, that that Russia has transferred tactical nuclear weapons into a military base in Kaliningrad for the first time since the Cold War ended. Russian top-level military leaders denied those claims[3]. Pentagon spokeperson stated that deployment would violate Russian pledge that Russia were removing nuclear weapons from the Baltics. Russia and the United States announced in 1991 and 1992 a non-binding agreement to reduce arsenals of tactical nuclear weapons[4]. On the eve of the reunification of Germany, Helmut Kohl promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO's military infrastructures would not move eastward into the territory of East Germany, a fact since confirmed by the former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock. Later Russia was privately assured that Eastern European states would not seek membership in NATO[5].
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