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Analyses |
| Marek Menkiszak, Andrzej Wilk
US President Barack Obama used his speech in Berlin on 19 June to present a new nuclear disarmament plan. He called upon Russia to start talks on a further reduction in the US and Russian arsenals of strategic nuclear warheads – by up to a…
OSW Commentary |
| Andrzej Wilk
The heightened activity of the Russian Armed Forces has demonstrated that they have a relatively large number of units in different service branches which have already achieved the level of combat readiness defined at the onset of the…
Analyses |
Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) against the inefficient administration and the deteriorating socio-economic situation have been ongoing for two weeks. Parliament has been blocked in Sarajevo, and thousands of people have also held…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
Barack Obama’s first official visit as US president to Berlin (19-20 June) is being seen as representing a desire to strengthen relations with Europe, and an indication that Germany is the US’s most important partner in the euro area.
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
On 17 June, the Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas resigned from his post and gave up his leadership of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) after the head of his office, Jana Nagyová, was arrested and charged with corruption and abusing her…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański
The presidents of Belarus and Ukraine, Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Viktor Yanukovych, met on 18 June in Kyiv and signed a protocol on the exchange of documents ratifying the Ukrainian-Belarusian agreement on the state border of 1997. The two…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
The pro-Kremlin movement, the Popular Front for Russia! (Narodny Front za Rossiyu), held its founding congress on 11–12 June in Moscow, and was unanimous in choosing Vladimir Putin as its leader. The emergence of the Front fits in with the…
OSW Report |
The similarity of issues and geographical proximity have led the Visegrad 4 countries (V4) to undertake closer collaboration in natural gas policy, notably by agreeing on a common security of supply strategy, including regional emergency…
Analyses |
| Rafał Bajczuk
The largest German energy company E.ON, through its subsidiary E.ON Global Commodities has signed a contract with the Canadian company Pieridae Energy for the purchase of 6.5 billion m3 of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a year for 20 years…
Analyses |
| Marta Jaroszewicz
On 5 June the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine and the Academy of Science published data from the second all-Ukrainian survey on labour migrants, conducted with financial support from the EU. The most interesting conclusions from the…