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From the MoscowTimes article:
//Part of the Baltic Fleet's misfortune is a loss of infrastructure. While the outfit was very important to the Soviet Navy, its infrastructure was spread from Kaliningrad to Leningrad along the Baltic coast. Now, with the Baltic states independent, Kaliningrad is cut off from Russia, making it difficult to support a large fleet.//
I had to look it up on a map and, rather than use a computer map, I usually reach for my trusty Atlas, to save time. It's years out of date so it labels the region as "R.S.I.S.R." and, below Kaliningrad, it says "Königsberg", in brackets.
I think this used to be a German/Prussian enclave, on the far sude of Poland, from the Germans' perspective. Funny how they never got it back, when the Iron Curtain came down. (I think there would have been ructions if it had been handed back to Poland who, surely, had it even further back?