Kaliningrad is separated from the ‘motherland’ by Lithuania.
EPA-EFE/Valda Kalnina
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Stuck in the middle: the border between Lithuania and Russia’s exclave at Kaliningrad.
EPA-EFE/Valda Kalnina
A small piece of Russian territory on the Baltic coast has become the focus of heightened tensions on Nato’s fringe.
Aleksandr Podgorchuk/Kommersant/Sipa USA
Russia’s test of ‘nuclear-capable’ missiles in Kaliningrad is intended to send a message to Nato.
MAD: launch of the Sarmat, or ‘Satan 2’ ICBM on April 20, 2022.
Russian Defence Ministry/ZUMA Wire
Russia is raising the stakes with upgraded ballistic missiles and blood-curdling threats from the Kremlin
Unfinished and abandoned: the ‘House of Soviets’.
Vladimir Mulder / shutterstock
The Russian ‘exclave’ ignored its Soviet past, remembered its German roots, but now looks east again.