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Point of View | | Maciej Falkowski, Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

The Great Game around Turkmenistan

The rise of a new leader of the state of Turkmenistan – President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, who became ruler of the central Asian state after the 21-year rule of Saparmurad Niyazov, the self-proclaimed Turkmenbashi, who died on December…
Point of View | | Marcin Kaczmarski

An Asian alternative Russias chances of making Asia an alternative to relations with the West

Under Vladimir Putin's rule, Russia consistently and systematically expanded its activity in Asia, establishing closer political contacts with key countries in the region, rebuilding relations with former allies…
Point of View | | Wojciech Bartuzi, Krzysztof Strachota

Reintegration or Reconquest Georgias policy towards Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the context of the internal and international situation

The conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been Georgia's main security problem since the beginning of the 1990s, and, along with the Armenian-Azeri conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have made up the main security problems in the South…
Point of View | | Iwona Wiśniewska

The invisible hand of the Kremlin Capitalism a la russe

This study describes the two main economic processes observed in Russia during President Vladimir Putin's second term; renationalisation, and the concentration of economic assets.
Point of View | | Maciej Falkowski

Chechnya Between a Caucasian Jihad and hidden separatism

1. Even though Chechnya remains the most unstable republic in the Russian North Caucasus, the open armed conflict known as the Second Chechen War, which broke out in the autumn of 1999, is gradually dying down.…
Point of View | | Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

Counter-reforms in times of prosperity

In 2000, Vladimir Putin came to power after nearly a decade of the rule of the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin. As prime minister, and later as a candidate for president, Putin announced that he would reform the state. The main…
Point of View | | Anna Górska

What Future for Ukraine

One hundred days after the inauguration of the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko and the appointment of the new government led by Yulia Tymoshenko it is traditionally the time for first reviews and assessments of the new authorities'…
Point of View | | Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

The ENP in practice - the European Unions policy towards Russia Ukraine Belarus and Moldova one year after the publication of the Strategy Paper

Clear qualitative changes have taken place in relations between the European Union and its Eastern neighbours over the past year. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has been playing a significant part in the context of these changes
Point of View | | Agata Łoskot-Strachota

Security of Russian Gas Supplies to the EU - the Qestion of Infrastructural Connections

The energy security of countries importing energy resources depends largely on the shape and quality of operational transport connections. This is particularly important in the case of natural gas supplies. Natural gas is transported…
Point of View | | Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

The Enlarged European Union and its Eastern Neighbours Problems and Solutions

The EU enlargement is scheduled to take place in 2004. After this date, it should be a priority for the EU to develop a coherent and comprehensive policy towards its nearest neighbours, i.e. countries bordering the Member States, which…