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Europe9 min read
Until 1945, Kaliningrad was the German city of Königsberg, founded by crusading knights almost 700 years earlier. Here is how it became Russian, why it is cut off from the rest of Russia, and why it now sits at the centre of Moscow's warnings to NATO.
Europe10 min read
A 65 km strip of lakes and farmland between Kaliningrad and Belarus is the only land link between NATO's Baltic members and the rest of the alliance. Moscow sees the same strip as Kaliningrad's missing link.
Europe9 min read
Poland now has more soldiers than any other EU country, by its own count, and its leaders want Europe's largest army. History, geography and the war next door explain why. The bill explains the doubts.
