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Kaliningrad news

20 Jul: Navigation at Kaliningrad (Vistula) bay is gradually developing
20 Jul: The Kaliningrad region ranks 25th among Russian regions by quality of life
19 Jul: Avianova, a budget airline, plans to launch flight on Kaliningrad direction in Autumn
19 Jul: Since 2006, the volume of investments of SEZ residents in the Kaliningrad economy exceeded 33.5 billion rubles
19 Jul: Ibis Hotel will open in the Kaliningrad region in the next two years
16 Jul: The State Duma has ratified the Agreement on Cross-Border Cooperation Programme "Lithuania-Poland-Russia"
16 Jul: Kaliningrad artists' amber exhibition in Louvre
06 Jul: Construction of a new crossing point at the border of the Kaliningrad region and Poland completed
06 Jul: France and Germany will help Kaliningrad residents to visit border areas of Poland visa-free
10 Jun: Important announcement for subscribers of AIKE website!

News: Russia & EU

24 Oct: New international checkpoint opened at the border between Kaliningrad and Lithuania
06 Oct: Lithuania will Represent Denmark when Issuing Schengen visas in Kaliningrad
26 Sep: Russia won't put missiles in Kaliningrad: Medvedev (Reuters)
18 Sep: Forum of partner-regions becomes a good tradition
15 Sep: Kaliningrad businessmen found partners in Germany and Portugal
30 Jun: LITHUANIA’S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TOOK PART IN THE MEETING OF THE NATO-RUSSIA COUNCIL
16 Jun: Russia, EU could conclude WTO accession talks by year end: official
04 Apr: Russian FM sees wide opportunities for achieving new agt with EU
03 Apr: Next round of talks on Russia-EU deal to be held in June - envoy
03 Apr: Moscow hosts new round of talks on Russia-EU deal

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

Inter-regional Cooperation – the Next Steps. Stephen Dewar / Added on October 26, 2009

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