Open AccessTwo perspectives on the 'Kaliningrad issue'
Author(s) -
Smirnov Vadim
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
baltic region/the baltic region
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2310-0524
pISSN - 2079-8555
DOI - 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-6
Subject(s) - economic geography , regional science , political science , economics , geography
This interview with two former special presidential representatives for the Kaliningrad region (Dmitry Rogozin, representing the Russian party and Gediminas Kirkilas, representing the Lithuanian party) recounts the EU-Russia negotiations on the Kaliningrad region and the enlargement of the European Union in the early 2000s. The interview provides an important assessment of the negotiations and their results and explains for the first time the role of individual European states and politicians in the 'Kaliningrad issue'. These facts allow the reader to understand and compare two different — Russian and Lithuanian — points of view\u