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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 | | Tadeusz Iwański

Everything is possible Ukraine two months before the presidential election

4 February was the deadline for candidates in the presidential elections scheduled for 31 March to submit their applications to the Central Election Commission. The three favourites are: comedian and television producer Volodymyr Zelenskiy…
Analyses | | Tadeusz Iwański

Zelenskiy a comedian joins the race for the presidency of Ukraine

30 December 2018 saw the official launch of the campaign for Ukraine’s presidential elections scheduled for 31 March. Candidates can submit their documents to the Central Electoral Commission by 4 February. So far, several candidates have…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk

The Russian attack on Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea the military aspects

On 24 November, a group of ships of the Ukrainian Navy, composed of two armoured artillery boats, the Berdyansk and the Nikopol (newly-constructed Giurza M-type units, which have been in service since 2016 and 2018 respectively) and the…
Analyses | | Tadeusz Iwański, Sławomir Matuszak, Piotr Żochowski

Martial law in ten regions of Ukraine

After a heated discussion, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a law during an extraordinary session late in the evening of 26 November approving a decree by President Petro Poroshenko introducing martial law for 30 days in ten regions…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Nieczypor, Andrzej Wilk, Jan Strzelecki, Wojciech Konończuk

Consequences of the incident in the Sea of Azov

Before midnight on 25 November, President Petro Poroshenko issued a decree at the request of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine to introduce martial law for a period of 60 days, while announcing that a general…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Nieczypor, Jan Strzelecki

Fake elections in Donbas

On 11 November ‘elections’ were held in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR & LPR) to choose the leaders and the so-called people’s soviets (parliaments). According to the results published by the separatist…
Analyses | | Iwona Wiśniewska, Sławomir Matuszak, Jan Strzelecki

Russias response to Ukrainian sanctions

The Russian government imposed economic sanctions on Ukraine on 1 November by way of a decree passed by the president of the Russian Federation on 22 October. According to the document, the funds, securities and assets of selected…
Analyses | | Jan Strzelecki

Relations severed between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople the prospect of a new schism

On 15 October, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) decided to sever relations and eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (PC). This decision is a reaction to the decision by the Synod of Bishops…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański

The Ecumenical Patriarchate recognises the independence of the Orthodox metropolis of Kiev

On 11 October, a synod of the bishops of the Orthodox Church’s patriarchate of Constantinople (Ecumenical) confirmed the canonicity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, denied Moscow’s sovereignty over Kiev, and finally confirmed that in the…