OSW Centre for Eastern Studies

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

2021-03-19
Russia’s reaction to President Biden’s assessment of Putin
2021-03-19
A possible escalation in the tension in Donbas
2021-03-19
Partial democracy in Hong Kong coming to an end
2021-03-16
Going long-range: the development of Estonia’s coastal defence
2021-02-26
Israel ahead of its fourth early elections
2021-02-25
An attempt at a new start in energy cooperation between Belarus and Russia
2021-02-24
Ukraine: Zelensky’s anti-Russian move?
2021-02-23
No alternative to cooperation. The presidents of Russia and Belarus meet in Sochi

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

President of the Russian Federation - Vladimir Putin

Tightening the screws. Putin’s repressive laws

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The Bohemianisation of the media. The acquisition of the Czech media sector by local billionaires

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Sputnik V: research, production, vaccination campaign and export

Ilham Alijew and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The (pan-)Turkic Caucasus. The Baku-Ankara alliance and its regional importance

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Belarusians on Poland, Russia and themselves

Zdjęcie przedstawia prezydenta Zełenskiego

Zelensky’s Ukraine: the mechanisms of power are failing

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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