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| Paweł Wołowski
Patriarch Kirill’s third visit to Kiev this year is part of a Russian strategy to regain influence in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government’s possible unilateral support for the Patriarch of Moscow would threaten to disturb the relative…
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The Russian government has declared that in autumn, it will pass the state programme for re-armament for the years 2010 to 2020. According to a statement from the Russian government, the programme foresees an increase in expenditure on…
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On 29 July, President Dmitri Medvedev confirmed changes to laws regulating the operation of the Federal Security Service; these changes have been criticised by Russian democratic institutions and human rights defenders. The new regulations…
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On 24 July, President Dmitri Medvedev signed an amendment to the law on the Russian diaspora, which illustrates a change in the government’s approach to the question of its ethnic fellows. In the face of the failure of the repatriation…
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In the early hours of 21 July, an attack took place on the Baksan hydroelectric power plant in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, in the Russian North Caucasus. As a result of the explosion, two of the three generators were damaged. The…
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| Justyna Gotkowska
Russia and Germany’s great expectations of the Modernisation Partnership project are being restrained by systematic limitations in both countries.
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| Tomasz Dąborowski, Ewa Paszyc
Russia and Bulgaria have drawn the framework for agreements regarding South Stream and new gas contracts, but the negotiation process is still far from over.
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On 11 July, the German press announced that Gazprom had invited the German company RWE, a strategic shareholder of the EU project Nabucco, to join the South Stream project. The proposal was probably aimed at discrediting Nabucco…
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| Ewa Paszyc
Gazprom’s Annual General Meeting on 25 June saw no changes in the makeup of the company’s management. Despite the worst production and financial results in recent years, Gazprom did not announce any serious revision of its policies.…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska
The nature of the CU and the manner of its introduction show that for Russia, the move is above all of political significance, and serves to strength Moscow’s influence in the region.