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On February 11, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation Mrs. Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, and discussed topical issues of Russian-Polish relations, problems of implementing Minsk Agreements on Ukraine, relations between Russia and NATO and the future of European security....
Время глубоких перемен 2015 was a year of profound political change in Poland. The results of the presidential election in the spring and the parliamentary elections in the autumn brought an end to the liberal Civic Platform’s eight-year tenure in power (a record for Poland since it began holding elections in 1989) ...
... interesting article by Marco Siddi dealing with the concept of identity building in international relations, an important branch of constructivist research theory. More specifically, the paper tried to give an explanation of why Germany, Lithuania and Poland have developed determinate national identities, and consequent policies, as a result of a process of confrontation with the image of an ‘other’, in this case Russia. The author debates that, even though all three countries had had traumatic ...
On October 25th parliamentary elections were held in Poland that led to the victory of Kaczynski’s right-wing nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) over the outgoing pro-EU Civic Platform (CO), which has led the country for the last eight years. I am not going to talk about the reasons why CO is ...
... MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke fell short of getting into the Sejm (4.9 per cent). EPA / PAWEL SUPERNAK / Vostock Photo Igor Zhukovsky: Jaroslaw Kaczynski: Mr. President, Mission Accomplished! The campaign turned out to be the most “feminine” in Poland’s history, with three parties being led by women. However, behind them lurk the figures of well-known male politicians: Jaroslaw Kaczynski in the case of Beata Szydlo; former prime minister and current President of the European Council Donald ...
A parliamentary election took place in Poland on October 25, 2015, bringing quite an entertaining end to the hot political season: the Law and Justice Party will be able to form a government without a coalition; left-wing parties remain outside Parliament; and Pawel Kukiz – an “anti-system” ...
On September 3, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Director of Carnegie Moscow Center Dmitry Trenin and President of the Russian Insurers Association Igor Yurgens visited the Residence of Polish Ambassador in Moscow to meet Polish former foreign minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld, co-chairman of Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters. The discussion was moderated by Polish Ambassador to Russia Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz and also attended by Deputy Director of Federal Agency for Press and...
Poland sees Russia as a pre-eminent threat Poland sees Russia as a pre-eminent threat. This has been the essence of speeches made by Andrzej Duda, the newly appointed President who has called for additional security guarantees from NATO and has plans ...
... during Operation Desert Storm. Under the current plans, the Pentagon will provide Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with military hardware sufficient to support a squadron (approximately 150 servicemen) and send Central European countries – Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania – equipment for an entire battalion (roughly 750 servicemen). It is remarkable that the Baltic countries, which have long called for the deployment of a full-fledged contingent of U.S. troops and not just heavy weapons,...
... two-percent at the expense of social programs, and the frontline role in view of a potential armed conflict in Europe. Vadim Trukhachev Vadim Trukhachev: the Visegrad Gainers from Ukraine Tragedy The obvious beneficiary appears to be the Visegrad Group of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, where both Russia-haters and opponents of sanctions are set to obtain dividends. Domestic Politics Newly elected Polish president Andrzej Duda, whose campaign was permeated with the Ukraine parlance and ...
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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