Kaliningrad Oblast is a semi-enclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic Sea, lying between Poland and Lithuania, and is ...

Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost point of the Russian Federation. It is a semi-enclave on the Baltic Sea beside Poland and Lituania.

The Sparta II, a Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions, had been drifting near Tartus since Jan. 5 after leaving Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast on Dec. 11.

The dictator focused attention on the Kaliningrad Oblast. Experts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) view this as a forecast of future aggression against the Baltic states.

Cut off from their mainland states, exclaves exist in geographic, political and economic isolation. These national offshoots present a number of challenges that are proving difficult to solve Russia's ...

Their mission, it said, is to evacuate weapons and equipment. It also said the Russian Sparta and Sparta II cargo ships left Baltiysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, and St Petersburg, respectively, and are ...