Kaliningraders frustrated with 750th anniversary

  • 2003-05-15
KALININGRADThe mayor of Kaliningrad has hinted that the 750-anniversary celebrations in 2005 may proceed despite the lack of support from Moscow, while federal authorities have approved the completion of a $1.5 million statue to the Empress Elizabeth in Baltijsk, headquarters of Russia's Baltic fleet and a city closed to foreigners.Kaliningrad Mayor Yury Savenko told Interfax on May 7 that Moscow's decision to mark the 60th anniversary of the Kaliningrad region in favor of a 750th jubilee for the Baltic city that for almost seven centuries had been known as Konigsberg does not mean a ban on...
 
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