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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad (Königsberg) City and seaport in Russia, on the Baltic coast; capital of Kaliningrad oblast.
Its northern portion is in Lithuania and its southern portion lies in Kaliningrad province, Russia.
It borders on Germany in the west, on the Baltic Sea and the Kaliningrad region of Russia in the north, on Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine in the east, and on the Czech...
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Kaliningrad   (376 words)

  
 Kaliningrad Hotels. Airline Tickets Kaliningrad, Russia.
Kaliningrad is the new name of the old city Kenigsberg, founded in 1255 by the knights of the Teutonic order.
Kaliningrad is an economical and cultural center of the region.
Kaliningrad is also one of the scientific centers of Russia, as there are several famous Universities and Naval schools in the city.
www.visitrussia.com /citiesguide/kaliningrad/kaliningrad.htm   (236 words)

  
  Kaliningrad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 after the death of (Click link for more info and facts about Soviet President) Soviet President (Soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946)) Mikhail Kalinin.
Kaliningrad was particularly important to the USSR, and is now to Russia, as a Baltic port that is ice-free year round.
Kaliningrad is located at the mouth of the River (Click link for more info and facts about Pregel) Pregel, which empties into the (Click link for more info and facts about Vistula Lagoon) Vistula Lagoon.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kaliningrad.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Welcome to the BUP@Kaliningrad
For over 3 years we all, the members of the Kaliningrad Region BUP Center, are the part of a numerous, multinational and united family, i.e.
Kaliningrad BUP Center cooperates with the universities in the Baltic Sea Region.
Kaliningrad students have received about 150 diplomas, almost 30 students took part in different events organized by the Programme.
www.bup.albertina.ru   (768 words)

  
 Hotels in Kaliningrad, Russia.
Kaliningrad is a port situated on the Baltic Sea with a population of 408.000.
The city has one of the oldest universities in Russia which was founded in 1544.
Kaliningrad Hotel, built in 1960 and reconstructed in 2001, is one of the leading and well-known hotels in Kaliningrad.
www.allrussianhotels.com /en/hotels/kaliningrad   (307 words)

  
 Kaliningrad, Left Alone
Kaliningrad was a closed place from the outside world and even the ordinary Soviet citizens didn't have a permission to enter the city without a special permission from Moscow.
Russia and EU have already argued about the travel permits through Lithuania and Latvia for people of Kaliningrad.
Or will Kaliningrad be a merchandise, that Russia will use to get a freedom of movement for it's citizens in the EU area, including also Finland.
www.silentwall.com /Kaliningrad.html   (1028 words)

  
 Kaliningrad - Johnson's Russia List 1-9-03
Russia can be cured of this 'superpower' disease, which places it in confrontation with other countries, by developed democracy and a flourishing economy.
I think it is also essential that Russia presents the 'G8' and the EU with a draft agreement 'On the Development of the Kaliningrad Region in the New Geo-economic and Geopolitical Conditions'.
Any sensible Kaliningrad resident should understand that people's attitudes towards an individual person are to a large extent defined by their attitudes towards the land where that person lives.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7010-11.cfm   (1369 words)

  
 CNN.com - EU, Russia deal on Kaliningrad - Nov. 11, 2002
Russia and the European Union have struck a deal on the sensitive issue of access to Kaliningrad after EU enlargement into eastern Europe, defusing a row that has soured relations for the last year.
Kaliningrad, a Baltic outpost of about a million people, will be surrounded by EU territory once its neighbours Poland and Lithuania join the wealthy bloc, probably in 2004.
Russia initially objected to the visas, arguing Russian citizens were effectively just travelling from one part of Russia to another.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/11/kaliningrad.talks   (658 words)

  
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The roads of Kaliningrad are in terrible shape bith bumps and gigantic craters everywhere.
Kaliningrad has suffered more than a decade of neglect due to its isolation from the main body of Russia.
KALININGRAD, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - The action “Russian children travel to Russia”, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the V-Day, was flagged off in Kaliningrad.
www.lycos.com /info/kaliningrad--russias.html   (422 words)

  
 michael specter--times--aids in russia
From Kaliningrad, the truck routes -- and the epidemic -- head south through Belarus and Ukraine and north to St. Petersburg.
Dr. Mormot is director of Kaliningrad's only AIDS center, a small nest of offices tucked behind the aging edifice of the city's ancient infectious disease hospital.
But because methadone use is illegal in Russia, the doctors there let them leave their beds and buy narcotics on the street once a day.
www.michaelspecter.com /times/1997/1997_11_04_nyt_aids.html   (2077 words)

  
 Kaliningrad, Russia  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The capital of Kaliningrad Oblast, it is a major industrial and commercial center, connected by channel with Baltiysk, an ice-free port on the Baltic Sea.
Historic landmarks in Kaliningrad include the Schloss, or Castle (1255), and a cathedral (14th century).
In 1946 the city's name was changed from Königsberg to Kaliningrad, in honor of the Soviet leader M. Kalinin.
www.galenfrysinger.com /kaliningrad.htm   (282 words)

  
 Russian Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Russia, Kaliningrad map, Kaliningrad ru, hotel Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad eu, ...
When Russia withdrew all its former Warsaw Pact forces from Poland and the Baltic states during 1992-94, some air, naval, and ground forces were relocated to Kaliningrad, ostensibly because of housing shortages elsewhere in Russia.
In mid-1996 the official military garrison was estimated at 24,000 ground troops of the 11th Guards Combined Arms Army, including one tank division and three motorized rifle divisions, three artillery brigades, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, and attack helicopters.
The Baltic Fleet, which has its headquarters at Kaliningrad, includes three cruisers, two destroyers, eighteen frigates, sixty-five patrol boats, and 195 combat aircraft, together with one brigade of naval infantry and two regiments of coastal defense artillery.
www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_337.html   (372 words)

  
 Kaliningrad Oblast travel guide - Wikitravel
Kaliningrad Oblast (Polish: Krolewiec, German: Ostpreussen) is one of the numerous Russian oblasts (admininstrative subdivisions).
Kaliningrad Oblast is interesting in that being situated between Poland and Lithuania it's physically separated from the rest of Russia.
The Kaliningrad Oblast is the northern part of East Prussia (the southern part is roughly the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland).
wikitravel.org /en/Kaliningrad_Oblast   (421 words)

  
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Kaliningrad to PREGOLSK or KANTGRAD and Klgd region to KOROLEVEC
People in Kaliningrad need foreign passports to travel to Russia via Lithuania, which introduced a new transit regulation on January 1, 2004.
Russia's Baltic-region exclave of Kaliningrad seeks cooperation with the European Union in a number of spheres, Governor Georgy Boos told EU ambassadors accredited in Lithuania Monday.
kaliningradexpert.org /node?from=540   (706 words)

  
 Review on Kaliningrad by hower - MouthShut.com
Kaliningrad was originally a German city, from 1255 to 1945.
Kaliningrad can be reached by car, and it is the mode of transport that we took to enter Kaliningrad.
The Kaliningrad is not the most beautiful cathedral that you want to see, but in the heart of the Kaliningrad people, it is the symbol of their past.
www.mouthshut.com /review/Kaliningrad-18735-1.html   (1175 words)

  
 Russia faces EU's new frontier | csmonitor.com
KALININGRAD, RUSSIA – In what may be history's most peaceful expansion, the European Union plans to pull up its fences and plant them to the east in 2004.
Russia has kept economic and political control over the stranded region for the past decade, but that control will collapse once EU customs and visa regimes come into effect in neighboring Poland and Lithuania.
Pasko's party is small, but many Kaliningraders say they think its plan to hold a public referendum on breaking with Moscow and associating with the EU might turn out to the region's only option if the Kremlin does not find compromises that allow local residents and business to continue their already extensive contacts with Europe.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0723/p06s01-woeu.html   (1182 words)

  
 Pravda.RU High-speed rail link to connect Kaliningrad and Russia
Kaliningrad should become a region for cooperation between Russia and the European Union, according to a statement by President Vladimir Putin.
Moldova and Russia are determined to step up bilateral commerce and economic partnership, Alexei Gordeyev, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister, said in Chisinau, Moldovan capital, as he was summing up a 7th session of the bilateral intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation.
Russia and Belarus are likely to agree soon, possibly in August, on the introduction of the Russian ruble as the single currency unit, according to Pavel Borodin, State Secretary of the Russia-Belarus Union.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/06/28/48797.html   (1978 words)

  
 Kaliningrad: Russia’s National Security - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The problem with the Kaliningrad region is the problem of the security of the whole of Russia, as well as an economic and social problem.
Second, we have already mentioned that here in Russia there are forces that, the same way as during the break-up of the USSR, are ready to tear the Kaliningrad region away from the Russian Federation.
As for an isthmus that could join Russia with the Kaliningrad region via Belarus, the recent statement concerning the union of Russia and Belarus made by President Putin is considered as a deliberate blow not only against the Russia-Belarus union, but also a blow against the Kaliningrad region.
english.pravda.ru /main/2002/10/21/38466.html   (902 words)

  
 The European Commission's Delegation to Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Kaliningrad suffered a transitional economic crisis in the 1990s, with a steep economic decline and negative social impacts.
The economy started to recover in 1999, encouraged by the positive trends in Russia as a whole and to some extent also in neighbouring countries.
Other indicators of living standards (education, housing, life expectancy, etc) are also lower than average indices in Russia, although in terms of car ownership and mobile phone penetration, Kaliningrad is among the leading regions in Russia.
www.delrus.cec.eu.int /en/cis_8.htm   (2113 words)

  
 From Königsberg to Kaliningrad : a tumultuous history
Kaliningrad's region runs the biggest amber mine in the world, which lies in the village of Yantarny.
Kaliningrad's enclave has now a little bit less than one million inhabitants, half of which lives in the city of Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad's airport has a daily flight with Warsaw (Lot airline) and is linked three times a week with Copenhagen (DAT).
studyrussian.com /kaliningrad/history.html   (1837 words)

  
 Kaliningrad, Russia, Europe - Johnson's Russia List 6-29-02
The trouble is that Poland and Lithuania are due (maybe) to join the EU in 2004, and with it its Schengen agreement.
Kaliningrad, until 1945 the northern half of former East Prussia, has been isolated, poor and badly run since communism collapsed.
Some Kaliningraders call themselves EuroRussians, and feel they have more in common with ethnic Russians in Latvia and Estonia than with their own fellow-citizens in the "mainland".
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6328-8.cfm   (482 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Russia - Putin arrives in Kaliningrad
The president is accompanied by his wife Ludmila Putin who is a native Kaliningrad resident.The president will begin his visit with laying flowers to the monument of 1,200 Soviet soldiers who died in the battle for Koenigsberg (as Kaliningrad was called when it was part of Eastern Prussia) at the concluding stage of WWII.
During the Seven Year War, the city was annexed to Russia for a short while in the middle of the 18th century.
Today Kaliningrad is a unique economic exclave of Russia, separated from the rest of the country by Lithuania and Belarus.
en.rian.ru /russia/20050702/40833105.html   (420 words)

  
 Carnegie
It is often mentioned that the social and cultural aspects of KR development are very special because of the migrant nature of its current population, geographic isolation from the rest of Russia, and close proximity to countries that belong to Western civilization.
Another concern is that the clash of civilizations at the new Eastern border of European Union may intensify, and that the Kaliningrad region, surrounded by o countries, may become the focal point of conflict.
This kind of ideology makes it possible to take a critical look both at Russia and Western Europe, for both parts of Europe are dear to the Russian European who thus has every reason to long for improvement on either side.
www.nceeer.org /Programs/carnegie/kaliningrad.htm   (688 words)

  
 Kaliningrad. Girls, Women, Brides dating and marriage agency from city Kaliningrad, Russia . Gifts and Flowers Delivery
Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg) is a seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic Sea.
Kaliningrad lies on the Pregolya River near its mouth on the Vislinski Zalev, which empties into the Gulf of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
Today, Kaliningrad is an administrative center of the most western territory of Russia.
www.city-of-brides.com /from/Kaliningrad.shtml   (392 words)

  
 Kaliningrad travel guide - Wikitravel
Kaliningrad is the capital city of Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia.
Before 1945 Kaliningrad was a German city known as Königsberg (Polish: Krolewiec).
Road system is highly developed in Kaliningrad region (thank to Germans, who lived there before), however, they are not always very good (major Russian problem), and sometimes it s hard to get around because of absence of the signs with destinations (especially in the city).
wikitravel.org /en/Kaliningrad   (514 words)

  
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Vice-director of the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts.
At the same time as a free-lance managers initiates and implements international cultural projects «Renewal of cultural policy in the Kaliningrad region»; «Where are we from in the Kaliningrad region?»; annual International Contemporary Dance Festival «Tanz-Tranzit», «Chicken is not a bird, Poland is not abroad», SEAS in the Kaliningrad region etc.
Since 2004 – curator and manager of the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, including «Art-Guide.
ncca-kaliningrad.ru /index.php?name=Pages&op=page&pid=28   (131 words)

  
 Hotel Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia
Kaliningrad Hotel is one of the best and biggest hotel in the city centre.
Located in the downtown, it is conveniently poised near numerous tourist attractions such as the Cathedral, Kant's Grave, City Museum, Submarine Museum and plenty others.
One will surely enjoy the terrific location, comfortable accommodation and excellent service during their stay.
www.allrussiahotels.com /cis/hotels.nsf/HotelSpecial?OpenForm&ParentUNID=8AB1F30F2CA7E156C3256C68004B6B2C   (157 words)

  
 Russian Language School!
Kaliningrad (former Koenigsberg) is in the heart of Europe.
Kaliningrad is a very green Russian city with a high security level.
Life in Kaliningrad is substantially less expensive than in the Russian capitals.
www.myrussian.ru   (265 words)

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