{"id":99,"date":"2020-08-21T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T06:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korea.magicgenie.co.uk\/?p=99"},"modified":"2020-08-21T07:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T06:17:46","slug":"kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korea.magicgenie.co.uk\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Kaliningrad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Also talking of Russian hacking, I noticed in the statistics from the site that I had a visitor to the site from Kaliningrad<\/a>, Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After searching as to where in Russia it was led me to discover soemthing that was something I was unaware of! This city in the Russian Oblast of the same name, which is actually sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, not part of mainland Russia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So a bit of research it turns out the City was captured by the USSR after the end of the second world war where before it was called K\u00f6nigsberg<\/a>. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the area stayed as part of Russia became an enclave between Poland and Lithuania, something further complicated by those 2 countries signing up to NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was recognised apparently as the best city in Russia in 2012, 2013 and 2014\u00a0and hosted some of the 2018 football world cup matches, including Englands uneventful defeat to Belgium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway… welcome comrade from Kaliningrad! <\/p>\n\n\n\n