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Analyses |
| Mariusz Marszewski, Mateusz Chudziak
On 20 January, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch, aimed at the Afrin region in northern Syria.
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak
On 11 January, the IMF’s Mission Chief for Ukraine sent a letter to the Presidential Administration criticising the presidential Anti-Corruption Court bill.
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Strachota, Mateusz Chudziak
On 7th January the Syrian army launched an offensive against the Sunni opposition forces in the Idlib province.
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
The first round of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic (12-13 January) was won by the current President Miloš Zeman (with 38.6% of the vote).
Analyses |
| Marta Szpala
Most deputies in the ruling coalition made an attempt to repeal the law creating the Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office based in the Hague.
Analyses |
| Wojciech Górecki
On 5 January, the Tbilisi city court of first instance sentenced the former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili to three years in prison.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Sadecki
On 5 January, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was a guest at the congress of deputies of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria.
Analyses |
| Iwona Wiśniewska
On 15 December, the district court in Moscow found Alexey Ulyukaev, the former Russian minister for economic development, guilty of accepting a bribe of US$2 million.
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
On 7th – 9th December the SPD held its convention in Berlin. Delegates reelected Martin Schulz as the party’s leader (with support at 82%).
Analyses |
| Józef Lang
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Greece on 6–7 December. This was the first visit of a Turkish president to this country since 1952.