OREANDA-NEWS Poles were recommended to call Kaliningrad Krulevets, the Interia portal reported.

"The Commission for Standardization of Geographical Names outside the Republic of Poland, acting under the Chief Surveyor of the country, at its 125th meeting decided that it is recommended to use exclusively the Polish name "Krulevets" for the city of Kaliningrad and it is not recommended to use the name "Kaliningrad" in Polish," the agency reported on May 9.

The order came into force on the same day, and the decision itself was made on April 12.

As the members of the commission noted, when making changes, they were guided by the fact that the city is "known in Poland under the traditional name Krulevets", and the current, Russian name is "artificial, unrelated to either the city or the region."

The message also states that "the fact of the name of a large city located near the Polish borders, named after Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, has an emotional, negative character in Poland."

Dmitry Lyskov, head of the press service of the Kaliningrad Region government, called this decision an insinuation. According to him, with the same success, Russians can call Gdansk Danzig, and the Republic of Poland — the Kingdom of Poland.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in turn, considers the renaming no longer a manifestation of Russophobia, but a "process bordering on madness."