Head of Russian Department at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). He was faculty member of the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw. He was the manager for OSW project “NATO’s new role in the NIS area”; co-manager for OSW and CSM research project “Russian-German relations 1998-2005”; manager for OSW Project “Russia’s foreign economic activity”. He was member of the EU – Russia Task Force at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris. He was visiting researcher at the Finnish Institute for International Affairs (FIIA) in Helsinki and OSW Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. He is a contributing author to Poland’s "Rocznik Strategiczny" ("Strategic Yearbook"). He was a lecturer at MFA’s Diplomatic Academy. He is a lecturer at the Centre for Eastern European Studies at the University of Warsaw.