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Kaliningrad: Challenges Between Russia and Europe

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Prospects and Risks Beyond EU Enlargement

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In 1990s, the Russian Baltic Sea exclave Kaliningrad, despite its unique geographical situation, remained an area of peripheral interest for both Moscow and Brussels. Its “double periphery” status, along with the objective disadvantages of exclave location — the shortest direct distance between the borders of Kaliningrad and the nearest Russian region, Pskov, is 368 km — and strong militarization of the area have multiplied the negative effects of economic and political transition. By the end of the decade, Kaliningrad had acquired an extremely negative image abroad of an economic “black hole” and a social disaster.

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Moshes, A. (2003). Kaliningrad: Challenges Between Russia and Europe. In: Kempe, I. (eds) Prospects and Risks Beyond EU Enlargement. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-97591-1_6

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