The World Cup in Kaliningrad: Potemkin Village or real change?

Moscow’s handling of Kaliningrad in recent years makes it no surprise World Cup fans are set in 2018 to venture in from Poland for matches only rather than stay there.

Kaliningrad old economic fragility has not gone away. An ideological struggle accompanies Kaliningrad’s economic woes. Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has embarked on a further militarisation of Kaliningrad.

• Primary Source

Carnegie Europe: Strategic Europe, 09.12.16: Kaliningrad and the Escalatory Spiral in the Baltics (et al) http://www.europeansources.info/record/kaliningrad-and-the-escalatory-spiral-in-the-baltics/

The Conversation, 27.06.18: Kaliningrad: the unique World Cup city that has twice tried to erase its past https://theconversation.com/kaliningrad-the-unique-world-cup-city-that-has-twice-tried-to-erase-its-past-98778

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