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OSW Commentary |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
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
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…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło, Miłosz Bartosiewicz
On 29 October, anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic riots broke out in Makhachkala, the capital of the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. A crowd overran the airport and stormed onto the tarmac in search of Israeli citizens who were supposedly…
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz, Katarzyna Chawryło
By the end of the weekend of 7–8 October only the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has taken an official position on the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli territory.
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło, Miłosz Bartosiewicz
Azerbaijan’s military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh (19–20 September), which forced the unrecognised republic to announce that it would dissolve itself on 1 January 2024, was accompanied by an escalation of the already tense relations…
OSW Commentary |
| Katarzyna Chawryło, Iwona Wiśniewska
The mobilisation of 300,000 reservists into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which has been ongoing since the end of September 2022, has laid bare the chaos in the administrative apparatus and has given rise to concern among…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
On 6 December, Latvia’s Electronic Media Council (NEPLP, the state media market regulator) revoked the broadcasting license of Dozhd (TV Rain) – a Russian anti-Kremlin opposition television station operating in the country. The step was…
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Strachota, Katarzyna Chawryło, Michał Bogusz, Marek Menkiszak
On 15–16 September, the 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO; see Appendix) was held in Samarkand, with the participation of the leaders of its member states – China, Russia, India, Pakistan and all Central Asian…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska, Katarzyna Chawryło
On 11 September, the annual so-called ‘single voting day’, elections were held at various levels in the Russian regions. These included votes for governors in 14 regions (including the Sverdlovsk and Kaliningrad oblasts and Buryatia), for…
OSW Commentary |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is not being delivered solely along military lines but also along information lines. The Kremlin’s main weapon in this information battle is its elaborate propaganda apparatus which Vladimir Putin’s…