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Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło, Jadwiga Rogoża
On 16-19 August, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), the Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia, Cyril I, paid a visit to Poland. A key event during the visit was the signing of a Joint Message to the Polish and Russian Nations by…
Analyses |
| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga
In recent months, an increase in Russian activity aimed at maintaining its military presence in the CIS has been noted. On 20 August, the Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Salamatin signed a…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
On 30th July in the district court of Khamovniki in Moscow the trial began against three members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot. The band members were charged with “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” for performing an anti-Putin…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
In recent weeks, the State Duma has passed a number of laws intended to serve as instruments for increasing state control over public activity, and which could be used to counteract opposition initiatives. Among other things, the…
Analyses |
| Iwona Wiśniewska
On 21 July, President Vladimir Putin ratified the protocol on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Formally, the process of the Russian Federation's accession to the organisation will end with it being entered on the…
OSW Studies |
| Jadwiga Rogoża, Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga, Iwona Wiśniewska
The Kaliningrad region can be called a 'captive island', because of its specific geopolitical location - it is part of the Russian legal, political and economic space, yet it is geographically separated from the rest of the Russian…
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
Over 170 people died as a result of a flood wave which passed through the Krasnodar krai in southern Russia during the night of 6-7 July. The large number of victims was due to the lack of any warning system for impending floods, as well…
Analyses |
| Marcin Kaczmarski
On 30 June at a conference in Geneva (in which the permanent members of the UN Security Council, Middle East countries and the Secretaries General of the United Nations and the League of Arab States took part), a plan was adopted for a…
Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
E.ON, Germany’s largest energy company, announced on 3 July that a compromise had been reached with Gazprom concerning a reduction in price in the long-term contracts for the supply of Russian gas. This agreement was signed by Alexander…
Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
In recent weeks a dozen of members has left the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, an advisory body to the President of the Russian Federation. Most of them are people of liberal sympathies:…