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Analyses |
On 29 March, the Ukrainian gas monopolist Naftogaz announced an invitation to tender for the audit of the raw materials in its deposits. This is a first step on the road to the sale which the Ukrainian government has announced of minority…
Analyses |
An early presidential election was held in Kazakhstan on 3 April. The winner was the incumbent since 1991, President Nursultan Nazarbayev; he received 95.5% of the vote with an almost 90% turnout. In the opinion of the OSCE’s observers,…
Analyses |
On 31 March, President Dmitri Medvedev attempted to settle the conflict between the head of the Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, and the Attorney General Yuri Chayka, whose son has been accused of supporting illegal gambling…
Analyses |
Some of the Belarusian opposition activists who were arrested after the post-election demonstration last 19 December have had the charges against them moderated, which significantly reduces the sentences they may face. The decision by the…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
Guido Westerwelle, deputy chancellor, foreign minister and president of the liberal party FDP – which is part of the government coalition – announced on 3 April that he would not run for re-election as the party’s president during its…
Analyses |
On 1 April, RWE submitted a complaint against the federal government’s decision passed as a consequence of the catastrophe in Fukushima. In response to this catastrophe the German government temporarily withheld its decision to extend the…
Analyses |
Since Lithuania’s Seimas had amended the education law thus narrowing the scope of education in the Polish language and significantly reducing the number of schools with Polish as the language of instruction, Poles from the Vilnius region…
Analyses |
The heads of government of Croatia and Slovenia and the president of Serbia signed a memorandum regarding economic co-operation in other countries on 1 April in Smederevo, Serbia. Another meeting of the leader of these post-Yugoslavian…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Belarus’s financial condition has visibly worsened since the beginning of this year. The severe falls in the country’s foreign currency reserves and its shortage of foreign currency on the international market pose an increasing threat to…
OSW Studies |
| Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
Does the European Union’s policy towards its Eastern neighbours have any chance of success? To what extent can the objective of ‘external integration’, i.e. the adoption of EU standards by its Easternneighbours, be achieved?