Exclavity of the Kaliningrad region: experience of explication
... Kaliningrad as a Russian region coincide with Russia’s borders with Poland and Lithuania. In this context, the balance between the barrier and contact functions of the national border comes to the fore alongside the place the border regime has in the policies pursued by Russia, the neighbouring states and their supranational bodies. These considerations govern yet another crucial indicator of exclavity, i. e. the extent of the exclave’s openness to global engagement in general and transboundary collaboration specifically [28], [29], [30].
It is worth noting that during the transformation of the Kaliningrad region into a Russian exclave, ...
