OSW Centre for Eastern Studies

Vladimir Putin

Weaken, divide and deter: the aims of Russia’s provocation against Poland

Analyses

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Kongres Stanów Zjednoczonych

The US budget battle: a crucial test for Republicans

An empty Piata Sfatului (Council Square), Brasov, during the 2020 Covid pandemics

Thirty years of crisis: Romania’s demographic situation

Dětská tramvaj, ZOO Praha

Czech demography: once a model, now a cause for concern

Wave breaking on Holyhead breakwater

Turning the tide: the US pushes back against Chinese influence in European ports

Ukrainian military trenches in Zaporizhzhia oblast in 2024

Army at a crossroads: the mobilisation and organisational crisis of the Defence Forces of Ukraine

Stack of pipes waiting to be installed at a gas well

The EU’s gas market in 2025: Russian gas, new US policy, and strategic uncertainties

Another massive Russian air strike on Kyiv. Day 1287 of the war

Another massive Russian air strike on Kyiv. Day 1287 of the war

neptune

Ukraine presents new weapons. Day 1280 of the war

Mutual attacks on fuel infrastructure

Mutual attacks on fuel infrastructure. Day 1273 of the war

Reports

In-depth analyses of long-term processes

Konrad Popławski

At a crossroads

Crisis in the German automotive industry

Jolanta Darczewska

Rosgvardiya

A special-purpose force

Wojciech Konończuk

cooperation: Piotr Kosiewski

Endangered heritage

Polish cultural goods in Ukraine and Belarus

Piotr Szymański

New ideas for total defence

Comprehensive security in Finland and Estonia

Anna Kwiatkowska

Strangers like us

Germans in the search for a new identity

Justyna Gotkowska

A European Defence Union?

The EU’s new instruments in the area of security and defence

Marek Menkiszak

A strategic continuation, a tactical change

Russia’s European security policy

Maria Domańska, Szymon Kardaś, Marek Menkiszak, Jadwiga Rogoża, Andrzej Wilk, Iwona Wiśniewska, Piotr Żochowski

Fortress Kaliningrad

Ever closer to Moscow

Maria Domańska

Putinism after Putin

The deep structures of Russian authoritarianism

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