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Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
On 16 June, the leadership of the SPD announced an agreement to ratify the treaty on the European Stabilisation Mechanism (EMS) and the fiscal pact. Both instruments are crucial in the government's strategy for fighting the crisis in the…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
On 13 June, President Vladimir Putin endorsed the concept of a national migration policy for the Russian Federation until 2025. This is the first comprehensive document defining the goals, directions and mechanisms for implementing a…
Analyses |
| Ewa Paszyc
On 15 June, Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing the President’s Commission for the Strategic Development of the Fuel & Energy Complex and Environmental Safety. Putin himself has become chairman of the committee, and the…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński, Wojciech Konończuk
Belarus generated a surplus at US$1.9 billion in foreign trade in goods and services in the first four months of 2012 as compared to a deficit of US$2.8 billion for the same timeframe a year earlier. Minsk owes this, its highest positive…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
On 9 June, restrictive new amendments to the laws on administrative offences and public gatherings came into effect in Russia. The State Duma promptly adopted these amendments at the second and third readings on 5 June, and President…
Analyses |
| Iwona Wiśniewska
On 1 June, the British energy company BP announced that it had received a non-binding proposal to purchase its shares in the Russian oil company TNK-BP, but did not reveal the name of the potential investor. This information has…
Analyses |
| Marcin Kaczmarski
Between 31 May and 7 June, President Vladimir Putin paid his first visits abroad since his re-election, to visit Belarus, Germany, France, Uzbekistan, China and Kazakhstan in succession. He also took part in the Russia-EU summit in St.…
Analyses |
| Natalia Orłowska-Chyż
President Viktor Yanukovych’s decrees approving the new National Security Strategy ‘Ukraine in a Changing World’ and the Military Doctrine were published on 8 June. They replaced documents adopted during the presidencies of Leonid Kuchma…
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Strachota
The twelfth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) took place on 6-7 June in Beijing. The summit was attended by the presidents of the organisation’s member states: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and…
Analyses |
| Aleksandra Jarosiewicz
On 31 May, the Kazakh government announced that the charred bodies of fourteen soldiers had been found in a burnt watchtower in the mountains close to the Kazakh-Chinese border. The only surviving soldier (a 19 year old ethnic Russian) was…