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The Poland–Russia borders were confirmed in a Polish-Russian treaty of 1992 (ratified in 1993). [10] The Poland–Russia border is 232 km long between Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, which is an exclave, unconnected to the rest of Russia due to the Lithuania–Russia border. [12]
RT is a brand of TV-Novosti - self-named an "autonomous non-profit organization" (ANO) - founded by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti in April 2005. [ 7 ] [ 17 ] During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin , included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its list of core organizations ...
The first Russian partition took place in the late 17th century when the forced Treaty of Andrusovo signed in 1667 granted Russia the Commonwealth's territory in the Eastern Ukraine. [3] Under the Third Partition of Poland Russia acquired Courland, all Lithuanian territory east of the Nieman River, and the remaining parts of Volhynian Ukraine.
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Russian guards at the Poland-Russia border on the Vistula Spit. Situated in the Gdańsk Bay this narrow headland (spit) is on average only few hundred meters wide (widest point is 1.8 km (1.1 mi)) and with the total length of 70 km (43 mi) twice as long as the better known and more populous Hel Peninsula in the western part of the Gdańsk Bay.
Poland shares long eastern borders with Ukraine and with Russia's ally Belarus, and a frontier of some 200 km (125 miles) in its northeastern corner with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Russian forces have so far been unable to dislodge the occupying Ukrainian troops, and Kyiv says they now hold about 450 square miles of Russian territory, an area about half the size of Rhode Island.
Other issues important in the recent Polish–Russian relations include the establishment of visas for Russian citizens, [4] NATO plans for an anti-missile site in Poland, [30] the Nord Stream 1 pipeline [3] [30] (Poland, which imports over 90 percent of oil and 60 percent of gas from Russia, [31] continues to be concerned about its energy ...