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Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Szymon Kardaś

An attempt at a new start in energy cooperation between Belarus and Russia

On 19 February, Belarus and Russia signed an agreement to redirect exports of some Belarusian petroleum products from ports in the Baltic states to Russian ones. The three-year agreement covers the total handling of up to 9.8 million…
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Szymon Kardaś

The launch of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in Astravyets

On 7 November, on the anniversary of the October Revolution, Alyaksandr Lukashenka officially opened the first unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant located in Astravyets. The project was begun in 2012 by the Russian company…
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Kamil Kłysiński

Belarus a difficult start to oil supply diversification

On 15 May, Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makey announced that the US would start supplying Belarus with oil, with the first delivery to be made in June to the port in Klaipeda (Argus reports that this will be 90,000 tonnes) and then unloaded…
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Wojciech Konończuk

Dirty oil the greatest crisis in the history of the Druzhba pipeline

On 19 April, the Belarusian oil company Belneftekhim reported a significant deterioration in the quality of Russian oil transmitted to Belarus via the Druzhba pipeline. The level of organochlorine compounds was dozens of times over the…
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Jan Strzelecki

Pre-election gambit Gazproms offer to Ukraine

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…
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Wojciech Konończuk

Naftogazs victory over Gazprom the Arbitral Tribunals award on the transit contract

On 28 February, Naftogaz announced that the Arbitral Tribunal in Stockholm had handed down a favourable ruling for the Ukrainian side in its dispute with Gazprom.
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Szymon Kardaś

Russia and Belarus reach agreement on oil and gas

Russia and Belarus had been unable to reach an agreement concerning co-operation in the oil sector. On 10 October a compromise was reached.
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Tadeusz Iwański

Gazproms tactical concessions to Ukraine

Moscow’s consent to extend the winter package represents a concession to Ukraine.
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś

Russian gas for the Donbas the games being played with Kyiv and Brussels

The suspension by Naftogaz of gas supplies to the Donbas has been treated by Moscow as a pretext to unfreeze the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute.
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Wojciech Konończuk

Minsk 2 - a fragile truce

The document will bring only a temporary halt to the ongoing conflict in the east of Ukraine.