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Article: Euro-Russians adrift.(Kaliningrad, Russia)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2000
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KALININGRAD
THEY speak Russian, but do not feel quite at home in Russia proper; they visit nearby Warsaw and Vilnius much more often than St Petersburg, let alone distant Moscow. The 1m-odd people of the Kaliningrad region, a Russian exclave on the Baltic, increasingly call themselves "Euro-Russians". Though they have largely left behind their military-dominated past, they have not--yet--arrived in the modern European future that they want.
The election, on November 5th, for governor may help a bit. The incumbent, Leonid Gorbenko, has held the region back over the past four years, with oafish, clannish and erratic behaviour that has deterred investors ...