MOSCOW — Kaliningrad is the World Cup's (and maybe Russia’s) most unusual city, an exclave whose location means you need to leave Russia, then pass through at least two (and maybe three or four) other ...

Similar to what happened with the Treaty of Versailles in 1918, the end of World War II reshaped the European map, with a special impact on the eastern part of the continent and the borders between ...

This article first appeared on The Daily Signal. In an extremely worrying development for NATO, Russia last month deployed several nuclear-capable Iskander mobile ballistic missile launchers in the ...

Amid NATO's expansion, and sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, there's increasing tension in Russia's Kaliningrad region, which is geographically isolated from the rest of the country. Tensions ...

While the world watched Russia's North Fleet with trepidation as it launched surprise exercises near the Arctic Circle last week, Vladimir Putin has quietly been arming another area inside Europe's ...

Finland's admission to NATO greatly extends the alliance's land border with Russia. Finland also extends NATO's border along the Baltic Sea, which has been called a "NATO lake." That further isolates ...

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Russian troops have been grinding forward across the front line against outgunned and outnumbered Ukrainian forces.

Russia may have significantly modernized a nuclear weapons storage bunker in Kaliningrad, a sensitive exclave of Russian territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltics, as tensions between Russia ...

NATO is getting ready for its largest military exercise in years, Trident Juncture, in northwest Europe. But on the other side of the continent, in the Baltics, military activity has been increasing.