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Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
Recent months have seen a series of events which have tarnished the ‘party of power’ United Russia’s reputation and deepened the erosion in its ranks. The party is coming under constant criticism from the opposition, and has become the…
Analyses |
| Ewa Fischer, Marek Menkiszak, Konrad Popławski
On 16 March a deal was presented by the Cypriot government and the Eurogroup (a group comprising the finance ministers of the eurozone states). Three days later, the Cypriot government rejected the terms and conditions of this deal. It…
Analyses |
| Ewa Fischer
On 12 March, President Vladimir Putin recommended Elvira Nabiullina as a candidate for the head of the Central Bank of Russia. Nabiullina served as minister for economic development between 2007 and 2012 and is currently serving as Putin´s…
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used his first meeting with the new US secretary of state John Kerry (on 26 February in Berlin) to signal Russia’s readiness to resume pragmatic cooperation with Washington. However, Lavrov’s…
Point of View |
| Marcin Kaczmarski
Most participants in the Russian public debate seem to agree in their evaluation of the present condition of Russian-Chinese relations. There is awareness of increasing inequality between these two powers and Russia’s weakening position as…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
On 22 February President Viktor Yanukovych, during the TV show “Dialogue with Society” announced that it would be possible to sign a gas deal with Russia in the first half of the year. The deal would involve Ukrainian transit gas pipelines…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
On 20 February Vladimir Pyekhtin, the head of the parliamentary ethics committee and a prominent member of United Russia, together with three other State Duma deputies, resigned their mandates as members of parliament. This came a week…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś
On 13 February, representatives of the Russian company Rosneft and the US company ExxonMobil signed an agreement extending the scope of bilateral cooperation agreements which they agreed to in August 2011 and April 2012.
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
On 12 February, President Vladimir Putin signed a new Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation. This is the fourth consecutive document of this kind in post-Soviet Russia. The previous Foreign Policy Concept was announced in July…
Analyses |
| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga
Russian MFA special representative for the resolution of the conflict in Transnistria, Sergei Gubarev, paid a visit to Tiraspol on 6 February. His visit preceded a round of negotiations concerning the status of Transnistria to be held in…