Poland has started building defensive lines on the border with Russia as part of the "East Shield" initiative, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Nov. 1. Presented this May, the "East Shield" ...

Amid NATO's expansion, and sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, there's increasing tension in Russia's Kaliningrad region, which is geographically isolated from the rest of the country. Tensions ...

NATO forces could capture Russia's heavily fortified Kaliningrad Oblast "in a timeframe that is unheard of" if necessary, U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander General Chris Donahue said, Defense News ...

Igor Pleshkov says his concrete firm hasn't produced a single cubic metre so far this month Igor Pleshkov gives me a tour of his concrete business in Kaliningrad. Not that he's doing much business ...

For years, experts have argued over whether Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave is a liability or a deadly advantage in a NATO war. New leaked intelligence suggests Vladimir Putin is about to end that debate ...

Moscow has found itself at the center of yet another Eastern European conflict after Lithuania banned certain goods from traveling by rail through its territory to reach Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave ...

Lithuanian Railways says it will resume transporting goods to Kaliningrad Lithuania has lifted a ban on the rail transport of sanctioned goods in and out of the Russian area of Kaliningrad.

Anton Alikhanov, the governor of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, said Monday that the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who spent his entire life in the region, has a “direct connection” ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The village of Yantarny, on the shores of the Baltic in the Russian "oblast", or territory, of Kaliningrad has a prosperous look about it. Quaint wooden houses are newly painted. Polished ...