Perhaps it could be EU blue and yellow. Maybe it will be tangerine. (That’ll be tanning salongerine, the nickname of Kaliningrad’s Governor, Georgy Boos.)

Either way, the natives in Kaliningrad are getting restless. They’re tired of the lock-out behind the Schengen version of the Berlin wall and equally disenchanted with ‘Big Brother’, as locals call Russia.

The [...]

I should have blogged this weeks ago but I was off the net. And maybe by now the New York Times has forgotten about Kaliningrad again. But at least its reporter, Ellen Barry, actually pitched up here.

I’m impressed. Ellen Barry really does work out of Russia (NYT’s Moscow office) and doesn’t sit in a London [...]