Kaliningrad is still of great strategic importance to Moscow. It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet at the port of Baltiysk and is the country's only ice-free European port. During the Soviet period ...

Tensions have been rising in the Baltic region in northern Europe, with Russian territory of Kaliningrad emerging as another flashpoint in the Kremlin's standoff with the West over Ukraine.

Kaliningrad, a former part of Germany that was taken by the Soviet Union as a spoil of World War II, finds itself increasingly isolated amid Russia’s war in Ukraine as neighboring countries ...

In a rare trip, Vladimir Putin visited Kaliningrad, a Russian region surrounded by NATO member states. WSJ explains why the exclave, which has been at the center of escalating tensions amid the ...

I am more afraid of German hesitation around armament than of German army,’ says foreign minister - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad is bumping up against quotas imposed by the European Union for sanctioned goods that it can import across Lithuania from mainland Russia or Belarus, the ...

Swedish broadcaster SVT has obtained satellite images showing changes at five Russian nuclear facilities close to Europe in ...

Kaliningrad has a population of around one million people. It was seized by the Soviet Union's Red Army from Germany in the closing stages of World War II and was separated from the Russian ...

Kaliningrad, a Baltic port and environs home to around 1 million people, was annexed by the Soviet Union from Germany after World War Two and is connected to the rest of Russia only through EU ...

Totally detached from the rest of the country, the Kaliningrad oblast (“district” in Russian) has a little over a million inhabitants spread over approximately 15,000 square kilometers.

Last year a Gallup survey asked citizens in 45 countries how willing they would be to take up arms in case of war. Four of ...

With their access to the West cut off since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Russian filmmakers have turned to the city of Kaliningrad as a backdrop for Europe in their pictures.