Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg.

What makes you think Kaliningrad is a European city?

The governor of the Kaliningrad District claims that his ancestors are Greeks and Don Cossacks.

Lithuania has started blockading Kaliningrad.

Lithuania is enforcing sanctions against the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.

Russia has a major military base in Kaliningrad.

As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.