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Analyses |
| Miłosz Bartosiewicz
On 17 January, Fail Alsynov, one of the informal leaders of the Bashkir national movement, was sentenced to four years in a penal colony for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred. Protests in defence of Alsynov broke out in the town of Baymak,…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak
Ukrainian trade collapsed in 2022 due to the war (see ‘A year of war in Ukraine's foreign trade’), but it stabilised to a certain extent in 2023. During that time, exports decreased by nearly 20%. The reason for this was lower grain prices…
Analyses |
| Justyna Gotkowska, Krzysztof Nieczypor, Jakub Graca
The United Kingdom and Ukraine signed a ten-year agreement on security cooperation on 12 January. This is the first document of this kind signed following the declaration made by G7 countries in July 2023, in which they announced the…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec
On 16 January, Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico visited Budapest, where he met Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán and president Katalin Novák. After his trip to Prague, this was the second bilateral foreign visit paid by Slovakia’s…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
Oleg Serebrian, the deputy prime minister for the reintegration of Moldova, and Vitaly Ignatiev, the self-proclaimed minister of foreign affairs of Transnistria, met on 16 January. The meeting was aimed at addressing the growing tension…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
On 13 January, the Republic of China (Taiwan) held parliamentary and presidential elections. The incumbent vice-president, Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won the latter contest with 40.05% of the vote. His two…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 5 January, an amendment to the legal act ‘On freedom of conscience and religious organisations’ was published in the Belarusian legal register. The government justified this change in the law in terms of “the need to put the legislation…
Analyses |
| Jakub Graca
Negotiations are ongoing in Congress concerning US assistance for Ukraine in 2024. They have so far failed to produce an agreement. In the House of Representatives and subsequently in the Senate, Republicans have begun to demand that the…
OSW Commentary |
| Maciej Kalwasiński
The People’s Bank of China has reported that the third quarter of 2023 saw an outflow of foreign direct investment (FDI); this is the first time this has happened in at least 25 years. However, these data do not fully reflect real economic…