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Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
On 22 April, the so-called active phase of the combat readiness test of the Southern and Western Military Districts (MDs) being held at military training grounds in Crimea and the surrounding waters reached its final stage. A total of 10,…
Analyses |
| Franciszek Tyszka
Since 6 April, when the Hungarian investigative news website Direkt36 published detailed information about the construction of a campus of China’s prestigious Fudan University, there have been ongoing disputes whether this investment is…
Analyses |
| OSW team
On 24 April US President Joe Biden issued a statement in which for the first time he officially employed the term “genocide” in regard to the mass killings of the Armenian community (1915) on the territory of the Ottoman Empire (present-…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The Polish national minority school system in Belarus was created from scratch in the 1990s with financial support from Warsaw and an organisational effort of the Polish minority in Belarus. Although in its first years it developed…
Analyses |
| OSW team
On 21 April, President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly (the joint chambers of parliament). The speech consisted of three thematic sections: social policy, economy, and foreign & security policy. The…
Analyses |
| Mateusz Gniazdowski, Martyna Wasiuta
At a press conference on 17 April, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček announced the expulsion of 18 employees (16 percent of the staff) from the embassy of the Russian Federation.
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
The percentage of Moldovans in favour of their country's reunification with Romania reached a record 43.9% in the second half of March this year. The data comes from a poll published on April 6 by Moldova's iData company. The same survey…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska
On 16 April, the Moscow prosecutor’s office asked the Capital City Court to designate the organisations created by Alexei Navalny as ‘extremist organisations’. This applies to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for Protection …
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
On 16 April, the Russian Federation announced the retaliatory measures it has taken in response to the sanctions which the US imposed on the previous day.
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Dębiec
On 27 March this year, 56-year-old Petr Kellner, the richest Czech, died in a helicopter crash in Alaska. The value of his fortune, estimated at $17.5 billion, placed him in 110th place on the Forbes global ranking for 2020 (he amassed…