An unholy riot broke out in a historic Brooklyn synagogue when a group of rogue members armed with shovels dug a secret tunnel to gain access — and cops and hardhats tried to thwart them.. Young ...

Kaliningrad is geographically cut off from the rest of Russia, with Lithuania to the north and west and Poland to the south. NPR's Charles Maynes recently traveled there and has this report.

The ferry Ursa Major, which operates on a route to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, is seen at a commercial port in the Baltic Sea town of Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad region, Russia July 3, 2022.

The year was 2009 when – as hard as it is to believe now – Kaliningrad appeared on the brink of becoming Europe’s most exotic city-break destination, accessible by new direct flights from a ...

The Hasidic Jewish students who dug a secret tunnel under a Brooklyn synagogue said they’d rather go to prison than face a ban from the historic temple — as they rebuffed plea deals from pros… ...

In a rare trip, Vladimir Putin visited Kaliningrad, a Russian region surrounded by NATO member states. WSJ explains why the exclave, which has been at the center of escalating tensions amid the ...

The governor of Russia's Kaliningrad region on Monday proposed a total ban on the movement of goods between the three Baltic states and Russia, in response to what authorities in the exclave have ...

S andwiched between Poland and Lithuania, Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave cut off from the rest of the country. Its unique geographical position, coupled with tensions between Russia and the West ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish soldiers began laying razor wire Wednesday along Poland’s border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad after the government ordered the construction of a barrier ...

Having occupied the region, the Red Army stayed. At the 1945 Potsdam Conference, the Allies carved up East Prussia, leaving Königsberg and much of its surrounding territory under Moscow’s control.In ...

The congregation built a new synagogue in North Dallas and moved out of the building in the late-1950s. On Monday, the structure was knocked down because of substantial fire damage, according to ...