[Lukasz]

Not exactly, this is quote from Kaliningrad oblast official site

http://www.gov.kaliningrad.ru/en_region.php3

People of more than 97 nationalities live in the Kaliningrad region. Most numerous are Russians - 78%, Belorussians - 7.7%, Ukrainians - 7.4%, Lithuanians - 1.9%, Armenians -0.8%. Germans -0.6%, Poles - 0.5%. The population of Kaliningrad is 424.3 thousand, it is 43.2 thousand in Sovietsk, 42.9 thousand in Chernyakhovsk, 31.1 thousand in Baltijsk, and 27.8 thousand in Gusev.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"People of more than 97 nationalities live in the Kaliningrad region. Most numerous are Russians - 78%"

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Very interesting. I guess the Russians made sure that it was their people who populated Konigsburg/Kaliningrad after WWII. It is still the only warm-weather port in Russia, right?

[franksolich]

Oops, my mistake based upon an assumption, sir.

Surely this minuscule enclave, this tiny isolated piece of real-estate, owned by Russia, is more of a financial drain than a benefit, to Russia.

One of course never wishes to see one's own country broken up piece-by-piece, but I for one as an American, for example, would not object to spinning Puerto Rico free, or all those isolated Pacific islands which we presently subsidize.