[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.

[Lukasz]

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.

Well, they don’t invest in this region too much. Honestly in whole Russia they invest mostly in gas and oil industries. I know that in Kaliningrad oblast they have a bit of oil in the Baltic coast. Kaliningrad is famous because of their amber mines.