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Article: Russia faces EU's new frontier: A bigger Europe will encircle Kaliningrad.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 23, 2002
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Byline: Fred Weir Special to The Christian Science Monitor
KALININGRAD, RUSSIA -- In what may be history's most peaceful expansion, the European Union plans to pull up its fences and plant them to the east in 2004.
For the million residents of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, who will be completely surrounded by the new superstate, the threat of isolation poses both a crisis and an opportunity.
"Ten years from now, this territory will either be Hong Kong on the Baltic, or a new version of East Berlin," says Inna Konovalova, a local trader in amber.
How Kaliningrad's situation is handled could offer lessons in ...