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Kaliningrad Oblast: Baltic Sea
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It should be emphasised... that the practise of exercising power over the Kaliningrad Oblast is no different to what is happening in Russia in general. It is peculiar to the enclave that it is a stronghold of the army, which can influence certain decisions taken by the regional administration - with the helping hand of Yegorov and numerous officers connected with the administration and business. At the same time, however, the majority of the officer corps in the enclave and the present commander of the Baltic Fleet, vice admiral Vladimir Valuyev (who took office on April 11th, 2001) seem entirely devoted to Yegorov.
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The Federal Border Service in Kaliningrad, together with the oblast’s administration, the customs authorities and other state bodies, is ... trying to create favourable conditions for law-abiding citizens to cross the border freely. There are plans to develop a wider network of crossing-points on Kaliningrad oblast’s borders. By 2005, this will have included building the Mamonovo-2-Gzhekhotki road crossing, the Rybachii-Nida river crossing and the Chernyshevskoe-Kibartai rail crossing; reconstruction of the Bagrationovsk-Bezledy road crossing; the completion and opening of the Pionersky sea crossing, and the construction and opening of the Baltic Naval Base (basin 3) sea crossing; and the reconstruction of the Chernyshevskoe-Kibartai and Pogranichny-Ramonishkyai road crossings.
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Within de-escalation scenarios, it would certainly make sense to pre-deploy TNW in Kaliningrad Oblast, which is separated from the main territory of the country. It would ... be rational to do that in secret to avoid possible interference by the Baltic states. Thus, the report in the Washington Times deserves attention regardless of whether it is accurate: transfer of tactical nuclear weapons is certainly not impossible.
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Approximately 1 million people live in the Kaliningrad oblast, 425,000 in the city itself. Among them are c. 25,000 members of the Baltic Sea Fleet, the remains of the USSR’s once-great naval apparatus.
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