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Analyses |
| Jan Strzelecki, Krzysztof Nieczypor
On 24 April, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree introducing a simplified procedure for granting citizenship to the residents of the separatist republics in the Donbas (DNR/LNR). In its rationale for the decree, Russia…
Analyses |
| Jan Strzelecki
Moscow’s official reaction to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine has so far been restrained. The Kremlin has held back from offering official congratulations to the winner, and President Putin’s…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska
On 16 April, the Russian State Duma passed a bill on the ‘sovereign Internet’ with the votes of the ‘party of power’, United Russia. The declared aim of this bill is to create an infrastructure that will allow the Russian segment of the…
Analyses |
| Jan Strzelecki
The elections in Ukraine are currently the focus of interest among the political elite and media in Russia. Moscow hopes that the elections for president and parliament in Ukraine (the latter scheduled for this autumn) will open up…
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
Since 2015, when the Russian Contact Group for Intra-Libyan Settlement was established, Russia has been actively rebuilding its political influence in that country. The Russian policy is of a dual nature. On the one hand, Moscow is clearly…
Point of View |
| Jolanta Darczewska
It is generally believed that one sign that the secret services are doing their job well is media silence. In this respect, Russia is a special case: the services receive an excess of media coverage, which is part of the country’s…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś, Jan Strzelecki
On 22 March a meeting took place in Moscow between the Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev and the chairman of Gazprom Aleksei Miller and the pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians Viktor Medvedchuk and Yuri Boyko (the latter is a candidate…
OSW Commentary |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
In 2018, a distinct downward trend began to emerge in public support for the Russian authorities – the president, government, and other political institutions. All opinion poll companies have recorded this decline, which applies not only…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska, Jadwiga Rogoża
On 7–13 March, the Russian parliament passed two acts, thus marking another stage in restricting the freedom of speech in the Russian Internet (Runet).
Analyses |
| Agata Łoskot-Strachota
On 20 February, the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Council (COREPER) endorsed a compromise version of the amendments to the gas directive which had been agreed a week earlier during the tripartite ‘trilogue’ meeting with…