Russian enclave opens aviation hub (The Peninsula)

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Published 24 June, 2007, 09:51

Russia's Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad launched a 60-million-dollar aviation hub yesterday in a Kremlin-backed bid to stem its isolation from the Russian mainland and open it up to Western Europe.

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