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Analyses | | Jan Strzelecki, Tadeusz Iwański, Piotr Żochowski

The leader of the Donetsk separatists is assassinated

On 31 August, in the centre of Donetsk, there was a successful assassination attempt against Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the unrecognised ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’.
Analyses | | Tomasz Piechal, Jan Strzelecki

The coup detat in Luhansk

On 25 November, as a result of an armed coup, Igor Plotnitsky, the leader of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, was replaced by Leonid Pasechnik.
OSW Commentary | | Jan Strzelecki

The Eurasian Economic Union a time of crisis

The economic crisis in Russia is affecting the uncompetitive post-Soviet economies which are dependent on Moscow.
Analyses | | Jan Strzelecki, Rafał Sadowski

Crimea is left without power

Electricity supplies from mainland Ukraine to Crimea were completely severed overnight on 21 and 22 November.
Analyses | | Rafał Sadowski, Jan Strzelecki

The meeting of the Normandy four an extension of the status quo in the Donbas

At the meeting in Paris, discussions began about the possible extension of the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
Analyses | | Jan Strzelecki, Tadeusz Iwański

The Committee for Ukraines Salvation a pawn in Russias game

The pro-Russian committee has assembled in Moscow. It is composed of discredited politicians who have escaped from Ukraine.
Analyses | | Kamil Całus, Jan Strzelecki

The media storm over Transnistria

The media in Russia and Transnistria are building up the threat of war from Ukraine and Moldova against the separatist republic. The Ukrainian parliament’s termination on 21 May of the agreement with Russia on the transit of Russian troops…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański, Andrzej Wilk, Jan Strzelecki

Kyiv refuses to make concessions to the separatist republics

Kyiv is ready for a long-term ‘freezing’ of the conflict under international control.