Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
Ukraine: ambitious de-Communisation laws
2015-04-15Tadeusz A. OlszańskiThe adoption of the de-Communisation laws confirms that Ukrainian authorities attach great importance to the new policy of national memory. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Crimea, one year after the annexation: the end of the honeymoon?
2015-03-25Ewa FischerJadwiga RogożaThe past year of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation has shown that any resolution of the peninsula’s problems seems unlikely in the near future. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
The collapse of Ukraine’s foreign trade
2015-03-18Tadeusz IwańskiThe main reason for the decline in exports from Ukraine is the collapse of industrial production in the war-torn Donbas region. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
The parliamentary elections in Estonia
2015-03-04Joanna Hyndle-HusseinThe victory of the ruling Estonian Reform Party proves that the situation in Ukraine has turned this party into Estonians’ guarantor of state stability. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Russian gas for the Donbas: the games being played with Kyiv and Brussels
2015-02-25Szymon KardaśThe suspension by Naftohaz of gas supplies to the Donbas has been treated by Moscow as a pretext to unfreeze the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Oligarchs after the Maidan: the old system in a ‘new’ Ukraine
2015-02-16Wojciech KonończukThere have been major changes in the balance of forces among the key Ukrainian oligarchs, representatives of big business with strong political influence, since the victory of the Maidan revolution. However, these changes have not undermined the oligarchic system per se. Over the past decade or so, the oligarchs have...
‘Hybrid’ truce in the Donbas
2015-02-18Witold RodkiewiczRafał SadowskiAndrzej WilkThe formal coming into force of a ceasefire, in accordance with the Minsk agreements, has not stopped the fighting in the east of Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Still together, but apart? Kyiv’s policy towards the Donbas
2015-02-06Tadeusz IwańskiThe Ukrainian government has launched a series of actions to adapt the country to the de facto loss of control over part of the Donbas. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Minsk 2 – a fragile truce
2015-02-12Szymon KardaśWojciech Konończuk The document will bring only a temporary halt to the ongoing conflict in the east of Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Ukraine: chances for a visa-free regime with the EU?
2015-02-04Marta JaroszewiczUkraine launched the long-awaited process of issuing biometric passports, and thus met one of the EU’s key requirements for the abolition of visas. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
