摘要：The origin and originality of the problem often referred to as the Kaliningrad
puzzle are geopolitical. Their concise description could be as follows.
The part of Prussia taken by the Soviet Union after the Second World War
was transformed into a gigantic Soviet military base. It performed the functions
of the exclave against the West and of the barrier which helped the
USSR to ensure the dependence of the Eastern Baltics and domination in
Poland. After the Cold War, the territory of 15,100 square kilometres with
a population of almost a million, owned by Russia and located the farthest
to the West, although on the Baltic Sea, ashore became isolated from the
motherland and turned into an exclave. Gradually that exclave found itself at
the crossroads of different security structures and later – surrounded by one
of them. Changes in the situation gave rise to the so-called Kaliningrad discourse,
i.e. political decisions influenced by international policies in Central
and Eastern Europe and academic discussion and studies of the role of this
Russian-owned exclave in the relations of the East and the West.
