The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has said he had always called Kaliningrad "mine" during a meeting with officials from the Russian exclave in which he took aim at the West.

In the latest episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA's YouTube channel, Doctor of Historical Sciences Nikolai ...

MINSK, 3 December (BelTA) - Belarus and Kaliningrad Oblast need to increase bilateral trade to $500 million in the next three years, First Vice Premier of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at the ...

But Kaliningrad’s significance comes mostly from where it lies on the map. A thin strip of land south of Kaliningrad separates it from Belarus and connects Polish and Lithuanian territory.

Authorities in Warsaw say they have added minefields to the "East Shield" project, the name given to the protective barrier at the border with Russia and Belarus. Construction began in November last ...

But he said some quotas had already been reached, making it impossible, for instance, for Kaliningrad to import cement from Belarus - which used to account for around 200,000 tonnes a year.

Lithuania borders Kaliningrad and it also shares a 422-mile border with Belarus. Kaliningrad, home to an estimated one million people, has been Russian territory since the end of World War II in 1945.

Poland will deploy more troops at the border with Belarus after it accused Minsk of violating its airspace, raising tensions between the NATO member and a key Kremlin ally in an increasingly ...

Now Kaliningrad, a port city captured from the Nazis by the Soviet Union during World War II, once again finds itself a fault line in a Cold War-style conflict between Russia and the West.

Polish authorities have issued dire warnings that the Suwalki Gap, on Poland’s northern border between Russia and Belarus, is under threat. Locals say that is just election-related fear-mongering.