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Russian airborne forces participate in Zapad 2021 exercise in Kaliningrad (Source: Joint Forces)

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Putin’s aide warns NATO’s “war games” near Kaliningrad could trigger response while Russia stages its largest military buildup since invasion of Ukraine

While Patrushev alleges NATO plots against Russian territory, Belarus quietly prepares to host an exercise mirroring the exact scale and pattern of Russia's pre-Ukraine invasion deployments.

byOlena Mukhina

forbes civilian vehicles replace armored carriers russian assaults assault using cars instead combat telegram/tsaplienko lada zhigulis military forces have begun regularly nearly suicidal attacks ukraine reports marking significant shift operational

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Forbes: Civilian vehicles replace armored carriers in Russian assaults

The Russian military adopts civilian Lada cars for assaults after losing thousands of armored vehicles during its invasion of Ukraine.

byYuri Zoria

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Vilnius seizes Russian military camo materials cargo, reroutes to Ukraine

Lithuanian customs officials intercepted the supplies en route from Kaliningrad to Moscow, redirecting them to Ukraine.

byYuri Zoria

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The Moscow Times: Russia unilaterally decides to redraw maritime borders with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic Sea

Russian authorities have decided unilaterally to change the country's maritime borders with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic Sea, declaring new internal waters and adjusting geographical coordinates, according to a draft government decree published on the legal acts portal.

byOlena Mukhina

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UK intel: Russia moves air defense systems from “NATO-encircled” Kaliningrad to Ukraine to backfill losses

Russia's relocation of air defense systems from Kaliningrad to Ukraine amid S-400 system losses underscores regional security challenges and operational strain, as per UK intelligence.

byYuri Zoria

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda. Source:mil.in.ua

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Analysis

Baltic states grow frustrated with West’s war balancing act

On 28 July, US President Joe Biden issued a statement marking the centenary of diplomatic relations between the…

byAmanda-Jane Eddleston

Hitler and Putin collage (Source: social media)

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Putin using Kaliningrad exactly the way Hitler did when it was called East Prussia, Skobov says

In the late 1930s, Hitler demanded the opening of “a Polish corridor” to Germany’s East Prussia, triggering a…

byPaul A. Goble

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Zapad 2021 suggests, in event of war, Moscow could seize Baltics but lose Kaliningrad

Military exercises not only make known what a government believes could happen but become an occasion for its…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Houses in Rauma, Finland (Image: Wikipedia)

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Russians living near Europe radically different from Russians in the interior, Mironova says

It is an ancient observation that people who live in port cities or in portions of a country…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin presenting former Tatarstan President Mintimir Shaymiyev a map of 17th century Tataria. Moscow, January 2017 (Image: video capture)

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Extending Moscow-Kazan power-sharing treaty will destroy Russia, Gorevoy says

If Moscow extends the Russian-Tatarstan power-sharing treaty beyond its expiration date this summer, Ruslan Gorevoy says, not only…

byPaul A. Goble

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“Putin is a Russian Trump” and other neglected Russian stories

The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…

byPaul A. Goble

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What Moscow did to Koenigsberg, it will do to Crimea

Moscow’s destructive approach to its exclave of Kaliningrad [former East Prussian city of Koenigsberg – Ed.] over the last 70 years suggests…

byPaul A. Goble

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Archive

Russia creating prerequisite for invasion of Baltic states?

Russia is pushing its preparations to create a prerequisite for an invasion of the Baltic states. On June…

byNicole Gallina

Kaliningrad oblast government press sevice. The large electronic display says: "Meeting about Implementation of a Comprehensive Development Program of Electric Power Grid in the Territory of Kaliningrad Oblast for 2014-2022"

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EU energy plan puts Kaliningrad at risk, Moscow paper says

Gas pipeline issues have attracted far more attention, but a plan for a unified energy network among European…

byPaul A. Goble

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Archive

Gotlande – mūsdienu Danciga

Latvian translation of the article Gotland – the Danzig of our time. Translated from English into Latvian by Lenka, 8…

byThomas Theiner

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Archive

Gotland – the Danzig of our time

Over the past 12 months Russia’s air force has flown a series of aggressive combat patrols over the Baltic…

byThomas Theiner

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Vilnius analysts: Moscow would use a ‘conventional’ war against Lithuania

Most analysts have become so focused on Vladimir Putin’s use of “hybrid war” that they do not take…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

Kaliningrad’s German churches will be in ruins within 5 years

The 133 German churches in Kaliningrad oblast, many of which are irreplaceable cultural treasures, will all be in…

byPaul A. Goble

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Deutsch

Marsch für den Frieden in Kaliningrad endet mit Gewalttätigkeiten

Am Sonntag, den 21. September 2014 gingen in Moskau Tausende auf die Straße, um für Frieden in der…

byEuromaidan Press Übersetzerteam

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International

Russia protests synchronized and scheduled online: Kremlin panics

Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg … Who’s next? Activists online have begun synchronizing protests in different regions of Russia. Apparently it will…

byUkrainian media sources