Similar to what happened with the Treaty of Versailles in 1918, the end of World War II reshaped the European map, with a special impact on the eastern part of the continent and the borders between ...

Poland has started building defensive lines on the border with Russia as part of the "East Shield" initiative, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Nov. 1. Presented this May, the "East Shield" ...

Lithuania announced this week it had blocked and fortified a bridge over the Nieman River linking it to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the latest in a series of escalations in the Baltic Sea ...

The city, formerly known as Koenigsberg, was ceded from Germany to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. In 1946 it was renamed Kaliningrad, after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the ...

Both Mark Mazower (Life & Arts, March 26) and Denis MacShane refer to Kaliningrad as a Russian enclave (Letters, April 4). They are incorrect two ways. First, Kaliningrad is a city. Kaliningrad Oblast ...

ENGLAND fans are on their way to watch the Three Lions take on Belgium tomorrow in their final group stage game. But where is Kaliningrad and is it safe for England fans? Both England and Belgium are ...

A Swedish Air Force Gulfstream IVSP Electronic Intelligence plane could be tracked as it flew in the airspace off Kaliningrad Oblast, where some of the most active Russian bases in the Baltic region ...

The same applies to the Kaliningrad Oblast which will now be named the Krolewiec Oblast in the Polish language. The name change was an initiative of local government officials, supported by a request ...

If you think it is necessary to reach Russia from the European Union by travelling east, think again. I enter Kaliningrad from Lithuania at Sovetsk, over the Queen Louise Bridge, which straddles the ...