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OSW Studies | | Agata Dubas

THE MENACE OF A BROWN RUSSIA Ethnically motivated xenophobia - symptoms causes and prospects for the future

In late August and early September 2006, Kondopoga, a town of 40,000 inhabitants in Russia's Republic of Karelia, became the scene of ethnic riots. The pretext for the outbreak was one specific incident - a fight in a café between the…
OSW Studies | | Wojciech Konończuk

DIFFICULT ALLY Belarus in Russias foreign policy

Belarus holds a special position in Russian policy due to its geopolitical, military and transit significance. Russia's influence and position in the entire Eastern European region largely depend on how strong Russian influence in Belarus…
OSW Report | | Wojciech Bartuzi, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Krzysztof Strachota

Abkhazia South Ossetia Nagorno-Karabakh unfrozen conflicts between Russia and the West

The Southern Caucasus is the site of three armed conflicts with separatist backgrounds, which have remained unsolved for years: the conflicts in Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Azerbaijan's conflict…
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…
OSW Report | | Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

Gazproms expansion in the EU co-operation or domination

The energy sector, especially with regard to natural gas trade, is one of the key areas of co-operation between the EU and Russia. However, the character of this co-operation has given rise to increasing doubts both in Brussels and among…
OSW Studies | | Wojciech Konończuk

The failure of integration The CIS and other international organisations in the post-Soviet area 1991-2006

Institutional integration processes in the post-Soviet area have ended in failure. It proved impossible to transform the Commonwealth of Independent States into an instrument of real co-operation, even though Russia, which was the most…
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.
OSW Report | | Leszek Szerepka, Marta Jaroszewicz

MIGRATION CHALLENGES in the European Unions Eastern Neighbourhood

In recent years, both in Poland and across Europe, the problem of international migration has been transformed from an issue which merely concerned a narrow group of analysts and officials into an area of interest for broad social circles…
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…