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Analyses |
| Natalia Orłowska-Chyż
In recent weeks, the media have reported a number of statements by representatives of the Belarusian State Border Committee (SBC), who have threatened to weaken their protection of the border with EU states, in response to the EU…
OSW Commentary |
| Tadeusz Iwański
The countries of Eastern European and China have been increasingly interested in deepening bilateral contacts over the past few years. In the case of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova this has been caused by the bad economic situation which was…
OSW Studies |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
In Ukraine, alongside Ukrainians, there are very many Russians and members of other nationalities of the former Soviet Union as well as a still large group of people who identify themselves as Soviets (in terms of their nationality).…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 11 May, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka dismissed the interior minister, General Anatol Kuleshau, and appointed his former first deputy Colonel Ihar Shunievich to this position. At the same time, the Belarusian president announced a…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański, Anna Kwiatkowska, Rafał Sadowski
The stakes in the political conflict between the EU and Ukraine over Yulia Tymoshenko are the future of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), and thus the whole of the EU’s eastern dimension as a tool for the progressive, sectoral integration…
OSW Commentary |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
The nomination on 21 March of deputy prime minister Dmitri Rogozin to the newly created post of the Russian president’s special representative for Transnistria and to the post of co-chairman of the Russian-Moldovan intergovernmental…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Two Belarusian political prisoners, a former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau and his aide Zmitser Bandarenka, who had both been sentenced to several years in prison in spring 2011, were released on 14 and 15 April.
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak
On 29 March, the state-owned Naftogaz announced that it is seeking to open a credit line for $2 billion with Russia’s Gazprombank for a period of 7 years. By way of explanation, Naftogaz said that it did not have the resources to pay for…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Kamil Kłysiński
On 23 March, the EU decided to extend its sanctions on Belarus. The list of 232 people banned from entering the EU was extended by a further 12 names, including two major Belarusian businessmen suspected of financially supporting the…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk, Sławomir Matuszak
When Moldova and Ukraine joined the Energy Community in May 2010 and February 2011 respectively, they committed themselves to adopting and implementing a series of European Union directives relating to gas, electricity, renewable energy…