Paulina Siegień

A cross-border journalist working between Gdańsk and Kaliningrad and a doctoral student at the Faculty of Languages at the University of Gdańsk. She once lived, studied and worked in Warsaw, and for several years now has been based mainly in Gdańsk, taking breaks to visit Kaliningrad and to travel through Eastern Europe and, to a lesser extent, Western Europe. A friend of Kaliningrad, she loves the history of the region, the Hanseatic League, the Baltic, Russian literature and Russian rap. She speaks five languages.

Close Stranger*, or What You Can Learn about Kaliningrad in Poland

A review of Polish press coverage of the Russian exclave on the Baltic.

Paulina Siegień

Once Upon a Time in America

Most New York Times articles that mention Kaliningrad are military news.

Paulina Siegień

Local Border Dislike

A view of Polish-Russian cooperation in the local border traffic zone from Switzerland and Portugal.

Paulina Siegień

Two Cities in One: Many Plans, but No Progress

A report in a Swiss newspaper looks at the face of modern Kaliningrad, which in places coexists with Königsberg.

Paulina Siegień