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Analyses |
| Krzysztof Strachota
A wide-ranging amendment to Uzbekistan’s constitution came into effect on 1 May. It was adopted on the basis of a referendum held the day before, with the support of 90.12% of voters and a turnout of 84.5%. the poll passed off peacefully,…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
In recent days, the daily number of Russian rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory has begun to rise sharply. According to the local military-civilian administrations, on the evening and night of 5–6 May, the invaders fired eight missiles,…
OSW Commentary |
| Adam Michalski
On 14 May Turkey will hold both presidential and parliamentary elections. Seeking to extend its 21-year rule is the Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Their main rival is the opposition bloc…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
In the early hours of 3 May, two drones exploded over the Kremlin. One of them caused a fire on the dome of the Senate Palace, where a flagpole bearing the state flag was installed. The Russian authorities refrained from commenting on the…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska
Pope Francis paid an official visit to Budapest on 28–30 April, the first papal pilgrimage to Hungary since John Paul II’s visit in 1996. Although the current pope had already been to the country’s capital on 7 September 2021, that visit…
Analyses |
| Lidia Gibadło, Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 26–27 April, the Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda paid a working visit to Germany. Its highlights were his meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the speech he gave at the Körber Foundation under the title Zeitenwende. The turning…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 29 April, probably thanks to a Ukrainian drone attack, between four and ten tanks (depending on sources) of petroleum products in occupied Sevastopol, Crimea were destroyed. In turn, a fuel train was said to have derailed (after the…
Analyses |
| Zuzanna Krzyżanowska
On Thursday, 27 April, a ceremony was held to mark the placement of nuclear fuel in the first reactor of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant. The event, held at the site, was attended by the Turkish energy and natural resources minister Fatih…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On the night of 28 April, the Russians launched a rocket attack on several regions of Ukraine. Residential buildings were hit in Dnipro, Uman and Ukrainka (Kyiv oblast), resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen people (10 in Uman alone…
OSW Commentary |
| Jakub Ber
The Russian mercenary organisation known as the Wagner Group was not engaged in the fighting in Ukraine until April 2022, when it turned out that the regular army was unable to break through their opponents’ defences in the Donbas. In May…