While Russia, as the host of the World Cup, successfully sets up its most friendly face for the outside world, Moscow is expanding and improving its nuclear presence in the Kaliningrad enclave.
Russian billionaire Sijavoedin Magomedov has been arrested on suspicion of misappropriation of public funds, including the construction of the football stadium in Kaliningrad for the upcoming World Cup.
The Russian presidential candidate and former television star Ksenia Sobchak argues for the legalization of marijuana in her country. She says the drug is less dangerous for society than vodka, reports The Moscow Times.
The biggest Russian military exercise in years begins Thursday. Thousands of men and women from Russia and Belarus participate in the eastern flank of NATO countries and in the Russian Exclave Kaliningrad in Zapad (West).
A Russian fighter plane hunted a fighter jet from NATO that came close to a device containing the Russian Defense Minister Sergej Sjoigoe. The incident occurred according to Tass press office over Baltic Baltic waters.
Lithuania has released a new version of a booklet with tips civil protection in the event of a Russian invasion. It includes tips for surviving in the wild and locating Russian tanks, guns and mines. This reports the BBC Friday.
The relocation of Russian Iskander missiles, which can carry a nuclear payload, Kaliningrad is aggressive show of force against Europe. That said the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite Tuesday.
Within NATO to take care about the aggression that Russia is marching on the world stage. 'It is very, very worrying,' said a NATO source. 'What is happening now has elements in it from a Cold War.'
Russia moved missiles that can be equipped with nuclear warheads in Kaliningrad, a small enclave on the Baltic Sea. That confirmed a US intelligence official Friday after reports in Estonian media.
A poorly sealed fuel valve of an Airbus A320 of the Russian airline Aeroflot, the crew Sunday forced to make a stopover at the Kaliningrad airport. As the plane made a safe landing, according to Interfax news agency. The aircraft was 150 passengers en route from Moscow to Hanover.
Russia will build its first whiskey distillery. Which will be placed in the western city of Kaliningrad, announced the head of the beverage group Alliance 1892 Igor Koedrijavtsev.
