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Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk, Sławomir Matuszak
Ukraine sees the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU as its priority and for this reason it has agreed to certain concessions to the EU's advantage; this has enabled the advancement of the negotiations. Ukraine treats offers…
Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk
On 14 January in London, the Russian state oil company Rosneft and Britain’s BP, one of the largest energy companies in the world, signed an agreement on the exchange of shares. At the same time, the parties agreed to establish a joint…
Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk
The sentence passed on the former heads of Yukos shows the determination of part of the ruling elite, led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to maintain Russia’s current political-economic system.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Kłysiński, Wojciech Konończuk
The most serious crisis in the history of Russian-Belarusian relations has been taking place over the past few months. In 2007 Russia started the process of depriving Belarus of subsidies in the form of supplies of fuels at low prices,…
Analyses | | Łukasz Antas, Wojciech Konończuk
Rosneft’s takeover of shares in five German refineries is an element of the expansion of Russian firms into the EU oil market and will improve the security of Russian oil supplies to Germany.
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Wojciech Konończuk
A small gas debt that Belarus owes is a pretext for Russia to pursue its political and economic goals oriented towards both Minsk and the West.
OSW Studies | | Wojciech Konończuk
Belarus holds a special position in Russian policy due to its geopolitical, military and transit significance. Russia's influence and position in the entire Eastern European region largely depend on how strong Russian influence in Belarus…
OSW Report | | Adam Balcer, Wojciech Konończuk, Marek Menkiszak, Marcin Andrzej Piotrowski, Jerzy Rohoziński, Rafał Sadowski, Wojciech Tworkowski
The evaluation of Turkey's standpoint and potential regarding the aforementioned issues is especially important, considering the tensions existing in Turkey's relations with the EU and the USA, as well as the West's increasing engagement…
OSW Studies | | Wojciech Konończuk
Institutional integration processes in the post-Soviet area have ended in failure. It proved impossible to transform the Commonwealth of Independent States into an instrument of real co-operation, even though Russia, which was the most…