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Sergey Sukhankin

Sergey Sukhankin is an Associate Expert at the International Centre for Policy Studies (Kyiv) and affiliated member of IBEI (Barcelona). His areas of interest include political and economic developments as well as security-related issues in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the Baltic Sea region (Kaliningrad Oblast in particular).

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February 6, 2018

Collapse of the USSR was to have become a starlet hour for Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia´s “island” in the “heart” of Europe. Domestic and foreign commentators — excited with seeming end of the Cold War and the East-West confrontation — rushed…