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OSW Commentary | | Katarzyna Chawryło

Short-term stability and long-term problems The demographic situation in Russia

Russia has seen a negative natural population growth rate for three decades, except for a brief period between 2013 and 2015. Since 2020, the natural population decline has no longer been offset by a positive migration balance. As a result…
OSW Commentary | | Katarzyna Chawryło

A holy war The Russian Orthodox Church blesses the war against the West

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have supported the war and justified Russia’s aggressive policy since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. There have been very few voices criticising the invasion among the clergy…
OSW Commentary | | Maria Domańska, Marek Menkiszak, Katarzyna Chawryło

Chronicle of a death foretold Putin gets rid of Navalny

On 16 February, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service announced that Alexei Navalny, the leading figure of the Russian democratic opposition, had died in a penal colony. The circumstances of his death remain unclear, and the official…