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| Marcin Kaczmarski, Piotr Żochowski
Regardless of whether Russia decides to escalate the political dispute over the shield, or whether it adopts the tactic of prolonging the negotiations, the chances of modifying the shape of the MD system or preventing the deployment of…
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Another Russia-EU summit was held in Nizhny Novgorod on June 9-10. It brought no settlement in any of the major issues for both partners (WTO membership, visa regime), thus displaying the sustained, serious divergence of interests between…
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On 10 June, Yuri Budanov was shot in Moscow. Budanov was a Russian army colonel, who had been jailed for the brutal murder of a young Chechen woman during the Second Chechen War. Despite his prison sentence, Budanov was still regarded as a…
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| Kamil Kłysiński, Wojciech Konończuk
The loan is to be made in several tranches over the next three years. As Belarus’s sole possible creditor at this time, Moscow has presented its action as economic support for the crisis-ridden Belarusian economy. However, in return for…
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On 1 June, the Russian government approved the draft tax policy for the period 2012-2014, which includes provisions for tax increases for Gazprom. The government has also decided to lift the tax on extraction for Novatek’s Yamal-LNG…
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On 6 June in Sochi, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticised the desirability of visa facilitation for the Kaliningrad oblast by bringing it under local border traffic (LBT) regulations. This statement represents a clear change in Moscow's…
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On 25 May, Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller announced that after the Nord Stream pipeline is activated, the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory will fall by around 20 billion m³ per year. This statement should be regarded as an…
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In the past week – on 23, 25 and 26 May – protests were held across Russia by businesses demanding a reduction of the 34% tax rate for social insurance. The government reacted very quickly, promising to meet the protesters’ demands. This…
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On 19 May, at a summit of the CIS countries, no agreement was signed on a free trade zone which would guarantee Ukrainian exporters easier access to the Russian market (and the markets of the other CIS member states) and would ban the…
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On May 18, President Dmitri Medvedev took part in a press conference with 800 Russian and foreign journalists in the Skolkovo Centre for Innovation, which is currently under construction. The President’s first large press conference was…