Robert Cheda
A former Polish intelligence officer, Robert Cheda specialises in reporting on Russia and the former Soviet Republics. He is a regular contributor to the weekly Polityka.
Updated: 18 January 2017
By Robert Cheda
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Russia-EU: Who will open this window on Europe?
Polityka (Warsaw)
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity.