NATO Operation for Independence of Kaliningrad?

According to the report in the ,,Tagesspiegel"the Baltic Republican Party (BRP), founded 10 years ago, demands independence from Russia, although the state administration is considering proceedings against it on grounds of High Treason. The party programme of the BRP envisages that Kaliningrad should attain the status of a state by means of a referendum of its inhabitants. By treaty with the Russian Federation, this should transfer to themselves the property of the territory and plenipotentiary legislative powers. Alongside the BRP there exists another ,,Movement Bernsteinkueste"which also wishes this name for the new state. As a first step to a sovereign state, Kaliningrad should be receptive to the retrospective name of Koenigsberg - the Tagesspiel suggests.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine nespaper had previously speculated about ,,a new form of separatism with all the unpleasant concommitants". Solomon Ginsberg, a Liberal Deputy of the Kaliningrad Duma was reported as saying that, on account of low living standards, Kaliningrad could change ,,its anti bureaucratic opinion into an anti Russian Federation opinion".

,,Young Republic, threatened by Agression from the East"

The four pointed star on the substantially retained Russian flag of the Baltic Republican Party looks identical to the NATO logo - and that is publicly admitted to be no coincidence - according to the ,,Tagesspiegel".

According to the opinion of BRP Party Leader Sergej Pasko, NATO would shortly have a ,,thoroughly clear concept"of ,,a guarantee for free elections in a young republic, threatened from the East".

In accordance with this concept, NATO manoeuvres began in March in the Polish Baltic. Three divisions and forty warships took part.