Vladimir Putin, already bogged down in Ukraine, could soon face a rebellion within Russia‘s own border with tensions in Kaliningrad threatening to spark demands for a total split from Moscow’s orbit. The enclave, centred on what was historically the Prussian city of Königsberg, has been under Russian control, since the end of the Second World War. Though political activists under the banner of ‘The Baltic Republican Party’ believe the moment has come for the Russian oblast which sits between Poland and Lithuania to follow Ukraine and side with Europe in rejecting Putin’s rule.
He told Express.co.uk: “[The] Worst case scenario for residents of Königsberg region is a North Korea on the Baltic Sea.”
He told Express.co.uk: “More people are getting to know about us despite of Kremlin’s censorship and terror.”
A referendum conducted in March, which was reported by the news website TVP.INFO, suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s lofty ambitions to revive the Soviet Union may be taking an unexpected turn.
The idea of secession and the creation of an independent state appears to have the backing of the majority of Kaliningrad’s citizens.
According to the survey, 72.1 per cent of participants in the Kaliningrad oblast express a wish to leave the Russian Federation.
The Baltic Republican Party lost its official status as a political party on March 26, 2003, due to the new Russian Law on political parties, which required parties to have regional branches in at least half of the Russian Federation’s constituents.
