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Analyses | | Ewa Fischer, Jadwiga Rogoża

Crimea one year after the annexation the end of the honeymoon

The past year of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation has shown that any resolution of the peninsula’s problems seems unlikely in the near future.
Analyses | | Ewa Fischer

Amendment to the Russian budget for 2015 an attempt to maintain the status quo

Russia’s economic problems are structural in nature and cannot be solved by the monetary and credit measures.
OSW Commentary | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Ewa Fischer

The Eurasian Economic Union – more political less economic

While the Kremlin presents the EEU as the Eurasian equivalent of the European Union, the project is in reality an imitation of integration.
Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak, Ewa Fischer

Crisis of the Putin economic model in Russia

The Kremlin rejects the possibility of reforms to the current political and economic model, which is the real source of Russia's economic problems.
Analyses | | Witold Rodkiewicz, Szymon Kardaś, Ewa Fischer

The rising cost of getting closer to Beijing New Russian-Chinese economic agreements

In the name of reducing Russia’s dependence on economic ties with the West, Kremlin is willing to pay a high economic price.
Analyses | | Ewa Fischer

The Russian embargo is affecting Russia

The embargo was intended to serve as an act of retaliation in response to Western sanctions, but it will strongly affect the Russian economy.
Analyses | | Jadwiga Rogoża, Ewa Fischer

Further EU sanctions against Russia

The Kremlin’s confrontational attitude towards the West means that we cannot expect the sanctions and the economic effects of the deterioration of Russia’s image to alleviate its political course in the short term.
OSW Commentary | | Jadwiga Rogoża, Ewa Fischer

A bottomless pit the costs of Crimeas annexation by Russia

The decision concerning Moscow’s annexation of Crimea was taken off the cuff, with no calculation of the costs of integrating it with the rest of Russia.
Analyses | | Ewa Fischer

The stagnation of the Russian economy

Weaker than expected economic growth rates in the first quarter of this year have led the Russian government to revise its estimates of GDP growth in 2013 downwards from 3.7 to 2.4%. Although the economy has already entered a period of…
Analyses | | Ewa Fischer, Marek Menkiszak, Konrad Popławski

Germanys Cyprus victory

On the night of 24/5 March, the Cypriot government reached an agreement with the Eurogroup on a loan to rescue the country’s public finances. In exchange for a loan of €10 billion, the Cypriot government will have to liquidate the country’…