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Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

South Koreas expansion in Central Asia

The increase in the Far Asian countries’ activity poses a challenge both to the West, which wishes to acquire raw materials (oil and gas, but also rare metals and uranium), as well as to Russia, which is interested in maintaining its…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Strikes in Kazakhstan are growing

This strike is unprecedented in its duration and scale, and it has hit both Kazakhstan’s strategic oil sector and KazMunaiGaz, which is the most important state-owned company. The responses from both the company and the government have…
OSW Report | | Iwona Wiśniewska, Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Zuzanna Brunarska

Between energy security and energy market integration

  EU needs to develop a fully-fledged external energy policy; i.e. a common, coherent, strategic approach that build bridges between the interests and needs of the EU integrated energy market on the one hand and supplier countries on the…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Kazakhstan after the elections starting Operation Succession while maintaining the current foreign and economic policy priorities

It seems that the decision on the succession has already been taken, although the mechanism to implement this remains unclear. At the same time, keeping Karim Masimov in his position as head of the government, and the minor changes to the…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Azerbaijan will decide the shape of the Southern Gas Corridor

Although the launch of the corridor on the basis of Azeri gas is presently a near-certainty, it has not yet been established via which route nor under what conditions the gas will be transmitted into Europe. In practice, Azerbaijan will…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Russia as the main corridor for oil export from Kazakhstan

On 15 December, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which is the owner and the operator of the Tengiz–Novorossiysk oil pipeline, made the final decision to increase the pipeline’s flow capacity from the present level of 28 million…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Kamil Kłysiński, Iwona Wiśniewska

Common Economic Space another step towards integration focused on Russia

The chances of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus creating a common market in the planned form and by the intended deadline are limited. Closer cooperation between those countries will be the result of a lengthy and difficult process.
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Elections in Azerbaijan embarrassment for the West

Baku has given up even the appearance of democracy, something which puts the EU, above all, in a difficult situation; on the one hand it wants to intensify its cooperation with Azerbaijan, but on the other, it does not have the tools which…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Azerbaijans gas on its way to Europe

For the first time in its history, Azerbaijan will de facto have a chance to sell its gas on European markets (Greece, Bulgaria) and in the Near East (Syria).
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Kazakhstan again toughens its policy towards investors in the oil and gas sector

It must be expected that together with the improvement in the economic situation, Kazakhstan’s government will intensify its policy of state protectionism towards the energy sector. Despite this, Kazakhstan is not threatened by any outflow…