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Kaliningrad news

03 Dec: OLN: Car-importers' supply channel of used foreign cars is being closed
03 Dec: OLN: The Target Programme for Development of Tourism in the region for 2007-2011 is refined
03 Dec: OLN: Inbound tourism dynamics forecast for 2009 reduced 3.6 times
01 Dec: OLN: Vice-Premier Yuri Shalimov is to meet the U.S. Consul General Sheila Gwaltney
01 Dec: OLN: A session of Russian-Polish Council will be held in Kaliningrad
30 Nov: OLN: Up to 100 cars of Kaliningrad car-importers pile up on the Russian-Polish border
28 Nov: OLN: The development of Russian-Polish border-crossing points was discussed in the Regional Duma
27 Nov: OLN: Tele2 of Sweden bought a Kaliningrad mobile operator
27 Nov: OLN: Polessk will host Kaliningrad Economic Forum 2009
27 Nov: OLN: State Duma initiative may stifle the region’s tourism sector

News: Russia & EU

05 Dec: Russian envoy: EU talks show progress
03 Dec: Russia, EU to Negotiate about Basic Agreement in Winter
03 Dec: Russia, EU likely to continue accord talks in early 2009
02 Dec: Russia-EU cooperation pact talks to restart in Brussels
02 Dec: Russia-Norway visa facilitation treaty comes into force
25 Nov: EU MP accuses West of double standards in relations with Russia
19 Nov: Cyprus backs Russia's call for new European treaty
19 Nov: Sarkozy looks to bridge Russian-West divide
18 Nov: EU Says Rise In Russia Duties Could Harm WTO Talks
18 Nov: EU–Russia talks get Nice boost

Articles

27 Nov: The New York Times: Russian Missile Plan Gives a New European Trade Hub an Old Identity Crisis
06 Nov: Russian lessons
26 Feb: A grail with walls
20 Dec: Kaliningrad to be Putin’s Hong Kong
15 Oct: Niche Living

Documents

24 May: AGREEMENT between the European Community and the Russian Federation on readmission
24 May: AGREEMENT between the European Community and the Russian Federation on the facilitation of the issuance of visas to the citizens of the European Union and the Russian Federation
21 May: EU-Russia Relations, May 2007
24 Oct: RESOLUTION on the EU Policy of Issuing Visas to Citizens of the Neighbouring States
31 May: BSR INTERREG IIIB: Approved projects with Kaliningrad participation

Publications

Special Economic Zone in Kaliningrad as a Tool of Industrial Development: The Case of the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing. Artur Usanov / Added on November 10, 2008

Assessment of the Long-term Development Programme and Strategy (2007-2016) of Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation. Raimundas Lopata and a group of authors. / Added on January 10, 2008

Vinokurov, Evgeny (2007), A Theory of Enclaves, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Added on January 4, 2008

Between East and West: a study of the Kaliningrad region as a Russian exclave in the EU. Master thesis Public Administration. By Fred Balvert, The Faculty of Social Sciences of the Erasmus University Rotterdam / Added on December 10, 2007

Modernizing municipal finance of the Kaliningrad oblast: performance-based approach and regional development