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 ...

Moscow and Minsk did not limit themselves to Belarusian territory and expanded the geography of their joint Zapad-2025 exercises to Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast, situated between Poland and Lithuania.

Despite it being in the middle of Europe and more than 270 miles from the country's western border, a piece of land the size of Botswana remains under Russian control. Kaliningrad Oblast is the ...

MINSK, 9 June (BelTA) – Belarus’ Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Shuleiko outlined promising areas of cooperation between Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast as he held a meeting with Governor of ...

Stretched along the Baltic Sea, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, lies the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. The region, or ‘oblast’ as it is known in Russia, is a little smaller than Belgium, ...

Nestled behind NATO lines at the heart of Eastern Europe, Kaliningrad’s unique geography makes it a strategically invaluable asset to the Kremlin. Of an area similar to that of Belgium, the region – ...

The deployment of Iskander-M missiles to Kaliningrad in October 2016 was the latest step in the continued militarisation of the Russian enclave. Previously hailed as the pilot region for EU-Russia ...