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Point of View | | Jolanta Darczewska

Putins Cossacks. Folklore, business or politics?

Russia’s Cossacks evoke extreme opinions among observers: some see them as a marginal social phenomenon, a kind of political folklore; others as a morally and physically healthy part of the nation, a pillar of the modern paramilitary…
Point of View | | Maria Domańska

Conflict-dependent Russia. The domestic determinants of the Kremlin's anti-Western policy

The Kremlin’s foreign policy is subordinate above all to the domestic political aims of the ruling elite.
Point of View | | Jolanta Darczewska, Piotr Żochowski

Active measures Russias key export

The remarks presented in this paper show the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the techniques referred to as ‘active measures’. The renaissance of this question currently observable today has called their role in causing crises into…
Point of View | | Marek Menkiszak

Russias best enemy Russian policy towards the United States in Putins era

Relations between Russia and the United States are characterised by an asymmetry against Russia, whose expectations vis-à-vis the US remain unmet. The dynamics of Russia’s policy towards the US in the last sixteen years has been one of…