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Kaliningrad
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Kaliningrad has been a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for many years. The related old law granted exemptions from customs duties components imported in Kaliningrad and processed on the spot. A revised law came into effect in April 2006. The new rules allow for continuation of the existing incentives for those investors who are already in Kaliningrad, for a transitional period of 10 years. The new law puts more emphasis on tax advantages aiming at attracting more investment in particular in manufacturing industries. The SEZ law ... contains a simplified visa regime for entry visas for foreign nationals involved in investment projects in Kaliningrad.
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Kaliningrad is the home of the only German theater in Russia, registered in November 1995. The theater stages performances in German with a Russian translation. Educational, ethnographic, and musical centers work in association with the theater. The Vergissmeinnicht adult ensemble and the Glockchen children's ensemble ... make their contribution to the development of German national culture.
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The visitors of Kaliningrad have the opportunity to admire the architectural and historical monuments and museums. The Cathedral is one of the most famous places to visit, an outstanding thinker and philosopher Immanuel Kant was buried near its walls.
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In the 1990s Kaliningrad was perceived simultaneously as a flash point of conflict with its neighbors and a gateway to Europe. The first perspective was based on the presence of large numbers of Russian troops, and on Russian fears that foreign interests (in Germany and Lithuania) claimed the oblast. By the late 1990s none of these latent points of conflict became manifest. According to U.S. government estimates, there were 25,000 Russian military personnel in the oblast, and no foreign government had claims on it.
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Kaliningrad suffered from a steep economic decline in the nineties, worse than the Russian average, and with all its negative social consequences. Income levels, public health, environment, and education deteriorated, while problems with corruption, crime, and drug-use increased. Much of the Kaliningrad economy was unable to transform quickly enough to create the opportunity for new entrepreneurial opportunities.
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Kaliningrad has been founded by the Teutonic knights when they conquered the coast of the Baltic Sea in the XIIIth century. Poland called them for help in order to repress the uprising of the Bruzi, the inhabitants of this part of the kingdom, whose name is at the origin of the name of Prussia. The Teutonic knights were charged to evangelize the pagan people. Poland had promised to the Great master of the Teutonic order, Hermann von Salza, that the conquered land would belong to the Knights.
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