Cataclysms or a political crisis

The better quality of life people have, the less they want cataclysms or a political crisis. It’s an axiom of karl Marx: poverty is the cause of instability. The cause of stability is wealth. The great lengths that Kaliningrad’s universities went to in establishing networks with political elites, academics and cultural figures in the West thus served to provide a framework for the region’s wider development – one that went far beyond that of other higher education institutions elsewhere in the Russian Federation. The Kaliningrad region is developing as one of Russia’s zones of integration into the European socio-cultural space. The region bridges the economy, politics, culture, education and science of Russia and the European Union. The city has a profound impact on many. While it is sometimes negative, this impact stimulates arguments, makes people think, dream and search. It excites reflection about politics, history, existence, personal matters and so forth.