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Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak
Faced with the shifting rhetoric and actions of the Donald Trump administration, Moscow is focusing on the elements it perceives as advantageous to its interests. In response, the Kremlin is pursuing a dual-track tactic. On the one hand,…
Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak
On 12 February, US President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with Russian authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, (which reportedly lasted one and a half hours), according to Trump’s post on the social media platform Truth Social.…
OSW Commentary | | Marek Menkiszak
Moscow has reacted to the inauguration and the initial decisions of President Donald Trump with restraint. On the one hand, Russia has sent positive signals, including congratulations and declarations of readiness for dialogue. On the…
Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak
On 21 November, Russia launched a medium-range ballistic missile of a new type, identified by the US as a modified version of the prototype RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile, which targeted the Yuzhmash/Pivdenmash plant in…
Analyses | | Katarzyna Chawryło, Marek Menkiszak, Witold Rodkiewicz
Official Russian reactions to Donald Trump’s victory have been reserved yet consistent, giving the impression of a deliberate political signal aimed both at the domestic Russian audience (tempering expectations for a swift end to the war…
OSW Report | | Marek Menkiszak
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine aims to subjugate or destroy Ukraine, overturn the current political and security order in Europe, and fundamentally revise the global order. The conflict is systemic in nature and will continue as…
Analyses | | Jacek Tarociński, Marek Menkiszak, Lidia Gibadło
On 10 July, on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington, the Unites States and Germany announced in a joint statement that the US will begin episodic deployments of the long-range  fires capabilities of its Multi-Domain Task Force in…
OSW Commentary | | Marek Menkiszak
Over the past few weeks, the political leadership of the Russian Federation (RF) has issued a series of statements and undertaken actions primarily aimed at Ukraine and the Western countries supporting it. These statements and actions can…
Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak, Piotr Żochowski
In the afternoon of 22 March, four masked gunmen carrying automatic weapons stormed into the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of Moscow (next to the north-western section of the Moscow ring road). They opened fire at random…
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…