Chinese & Iranian Troops are Exercising in Kaliningrad

Participants of “Seaborne assault” from China and Iran arrived in the Kaliningrad Region

Teams of the People’s Liberation Army of China and Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrived in the Kaliningrad Region in order to participate in the “Seaborne assault” contest within the International Army Games 2016.

In the nearest future, they will arrive at the Khmelevka training area in order to familiarize with targets and route of the contest.

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Oh the Irony! Kaliningrad Seperatism now a Foreign Policy Issue

Statements by Lithuanian and Polish commentators about Kaliningrad and actions by the Russian authorities against activists in that non-contiguous Russian Federation exclave suggest that the issue of separatism there is an increasingly lively one even if the prospects for any change in its status are not great.

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Hat tip Randy.