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| Katarzyna Chawryło
Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, referred to the post-election protests in his call on the Russian government to listen to the voice of society and to modify its political course. The Patriarch warned that the country cannot…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
Further demonstrations against voting fraud during the recent parliamentary elections took place in Russia on 24 December; the largest rally was in Moscow, where tens of thousands people gathered. Faced with increasing social…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk, Sławomir Matuszak, Ewa Paszyc
On 28 December in Moscow, the energy minister of Turkey, Taner Yildiz, sent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin a note giving Russia permission to build the South Stream gas pipeline through Turkey’s exclusive economic zone. The note’s content…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
On 16 December, the Russian Statistical Office released the first detailed results of the census carried out in Russia in October 2010. These confirm a dramatic drop in the population, as well as ongoing structural changes, such as the…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
On 10 December, unprecedented protests were held in many Russian cities against fraud during the parliamentary elections. The protests’ numbers reinforce the opposition’s mandate to continue the political struggle, as they confirm the…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
On 4 December elections to the Russian State Duma were held. They were won by United Russia, the 'party of power', even though it achieved a much inferior result to that of four years ago. Meanwhile, the elections have strengthened the…
Analyses |
| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga
On 18 November in Moscow, the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – Dmitri Medvedev, Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Nursultan Nazarbayev – signed documents designed to lead to the creation of a Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
Analyses |
| Marcin Kaczmarski
On 23 November, President Dmitry Medvedev issued a statement in which he accused the United States and other NATO member states of a lack of readiness to consider Russian proposals regarding the missile defence.
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło, Wojciech Górecki
On 8 November, the Tajik court of first instance handed down jail sentences of eight and a half years to two pilots (one a citizen of Russia, the other of Estonia) who were working for the Russian company Rolkan Investment Ltd. They were…
Analyses |
| Iwona Wiśniewska
Details of the initialled agreement, which was signed on 9 November, have not yet been published. From official reports, it is known that the parties have agreed to monitoring and an electronic data exchange system for trading goods in the…