Marek Menkiszak

Marek Menkiszak

Project coordinator
Strategic Communication on Russia

Project Coordinator Strategic Communication on Russia. Previously (2006-2026) Head of Russian Department at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). He was faculty member of the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw. He was the manager for OSW project “NATO’s new role in the NIS area”; co-manager for OSW and CSM research project “Russian-German relations 1998-2005”; manager for OSW Project “Russia’s foreign economic activity”. He was member of the EU – Russia Task Force at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris. He was visiting researcher at the Finnish Institute for International Affairs (FIIA) in Helsinki and OSW Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. He is a contributing author to Poland’s "Rocznik Strategiczny" ("Strategic Yearbook"). He was a lecturer at MFA’s Diplomatic Academy. He is a lecturer at the Centre for Eastern European Studies at the University of Warsaw.  

Expertise
  • Strategic communication on Russia  
  • Russia’s foreign and security policy 
  • Russia’s domestic politics 
  • Issues of the post-Soviet area and European security 

 

Strategic Communication on Russia Project 

The aim of the project is to utilize OSW’s substantive expertise for: 

  • Building and disseminating reliable knowledge about Russia and its policies among Polish as well as foreign audiences 
  • Identifying key target groups for strategic communication on Russia 
  • Identifying topics and narratives to be used in defensive and offensive cognitive warfare with Russia 
  • Participating in the international discussion on Russian cognitive warfare and developing recommendations for state and international institutions in this regard 
Major publications