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| Marek Menkiszak
Mike Pompeo paid his first visit as Secretary of State to Russia on 14 May. He had a three-hour conversation in Sochi with the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov; he met Yuri Ushakov, the Russian president’s assistant for international…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The first round of presidential elections in Lithuania no clear leader defeat for the Prime Minister
In the first round of presidential elections in Lithuania on 12 May, none of the nine candidates won a majority, which would have provided a decisive outcome in the first ballot.
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński, Jan Strzelecki, Piotr Żochowski
On 30 April, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Babich from the position of ambassador in Minsk and replaced him with Dmitry Mezentsev, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament. Babich had acted in the…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś, Wojciech Konończuk
On 19 April, the Belarusian oil company Belneftekhim reported a significant deterioration in the quality of Russian oil transmitted to Belarus via the Druzhba pipeline. The level of organochlorine compounds was dozens of times over the…
Analyses |
| Jan Strzelecki, Krzysztof Nieczypor
On 24 April, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree introducing a simplified procedure for granting citizenship to the residents of the separatist republics in the Donbas (DNR/LNR). In its rationale for the decree, Russia…
Analyses |
| Jan Strzelecki
Moscow’s official reaction to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine has so far been restrained. The Kremlin has held back from offering official congratulations to the winner, and President Putin’s…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański
According to exit poll results published after polling stations were closed, the presidential election in Ukraine has been won by Volodymyr Zelensky, who garnered around 72,7 % of the vote. Official voting results will be published by the…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska
On 16 April, the Russian State Duma passed a bill on the ‘sovereign Internet’ with the votes of the ‘party of power’, United Russia. The declared aim of this bill is to create an infrastructure that will allow the Russian segment of the…
Analyses |
| Jan Strzelecki
The elections in Ukraine are currently the focus of interest among the political elite and media in Russia. Moscow hopes that the elections for president and parliament in Ukraine (the latter scheduled for this autumn) will open up…
Analyses |
| Rafał Bajczuk, Ryszarda Formuszewicz
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) Parliamentary Group has published its official position on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (NS2). The document outlines the party’s strategy on NS2 in the project’s final stage and future activation. Based on…