Poles renaming Kaliningrad to the Polish name from the 15th century. Either they want to pointlessly poke Russia or they want to escalate in seeking medical radiation assisted suicide.
Officials have been instructed to call Kaliningrad by its Warsaw-preferred name, ‘Krolewiec’
Poland’s decision to call the Russian city of Kaliningrad ‘Krolewiec’, as it was known in the 15th century, “borders on madness,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Warsaw objects to the city’s current name because of its association with a Soviet statesman, whom Warsaw blames for the massacre of captured Polish officers under Joseph Stalin.
From Tuesday, Polish officials are required to call Kaliningrad by one of its multiple historic names, Krolewiec. The change also applies to Kaliningrad Region, the Russian exclave which is now referred to in Poland as ‘obwod krolewiecki’, or Krolewiec Oblast.
The recommendation was issued last month by the Polish national body responsible for foreign toponyms, local media reported this week. The country's geographic standardization committee claimed the city’s current name is “artificial” and cited the conflict in Ukraine as contributing to its decision.
