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How I watched football in a cinema
Football on the big screen: a personal story with a Baltic accent.
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Kaliningrad and the stands
The city, the region, Rostec Arena and the fans — why Baltika became the region's main event.
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Borscht, Levin and a goal after 35 seconds. My first evening in an RPL press box
Notes from a Kaliningrad writer in a Moscow press box — a place where football has to be experienced a little more quietly than usual.
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Money · Full text
Why Baltika should at least try to reach an agreement with FC Kaliningrad
An argument for Baltika and FC Kaliningrad to find common ground.
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Currywurst, pies, bocadillo. What flavour does the Rostec Arena need?
Dortmund drinks 60,000 litres of beer a match, England argues about pies, Spain bans sunflower seeds. Why not give the Rostec Arena's 326,000 visitors a taste of their own?
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3.5% of the city in the stands: how Kaliningrad overtook Moscow, St Petersburg and Krasnodar
Stadium against city: a new metric rewrites the RPL attendance table.
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Eight years ago Modric, Iniesta and Courtois played here. Now Trinidad and Tobago are coming. An interactive guide
In 2018 the Island hosted Modric, Iniesta, Courtois and a future World Cup top four. In 2026 the Russian national team returns for a friendly.
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I watched all 30 Baltika matches this season. Here is what I learnt about myself
A text about a man who watched all 30 matches and became a superstitious, table-obsessed and slightly dangerous supporter.
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Matches · Full text
Baltika closes the season. And this is a match for Kaliningrad
The season finale turned into a triumph of local stubbornness.
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Matches · Full text
An island of found hopes and lost points: how Baltika got tangled in Artiga's nets
Fifteen thousand fans filled the stands expecting a celebration and got a masterclass in turning 54% possession into a meaningless geometry exercise.
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Groundhog Day on the Island: how Baltika lost a match by forgetting to switch on the lights
Baltika slept through the first half, woke up in the second and found Akron had already changed the locks and taken three points out through the service entrance.
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Port clubs: what Baltika, Le Havre, Hamburg and the others born of the sea have in common
A theory: the most interesting clubs are often born not in capitals but where it smells of fish, engine oil, wet concrete and salt.
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Matchday of your favourite team: a chronicle of slowly going mad
An official document for supporters of all levels of degradation.
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Baltika already draws very well. But how to make a full stadium the norm rather than a holiday?
Kaliningrad is living through a football boom. Baltika is not just an RPL club but one of the country's main magnets for supporters.
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Sovetsk is the best argument that the region does not end with Kaliningrad
In the 80th anniversary year of the region Baltika dedicates every home match to one of its towns. A new town.
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People · Full text
Kevin Andrade is one of the most underrated defenders in the RPL. He just plays for Baltika
Often captain, a fans' favourite and a centre-back with whom the team simply falls apart less.
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Baltika finally remembered that the region is not only Kaliningrad
In the region's anniversary year the club dedicates every home match to a separate town — and against the usual officialdom it looks genuinely alive.
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