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According to the majority of observers, the Russian no longer consent to the social contract offered by Vladimir Putin. The citizens protest against the theory that “they will make a living thanks to political loyalty or passiveness”. What caused this change? What social activities, which have begun last Autumn, may result in? It is worth [...]

Now when certain time has passed since the day P. – the day of elections of Putin – we can reflect on our future a little bit. It is still not totally clear but some evaluation can be already made. Elections were not fair from the very beginning. Only “trusted” candidates with no chances for [...]

Will the new (old) Russian president be able to accept challenges that are created for him by the protesting nation and that contradict the ruling philosophy that he has pursued so far? Russia is changing – Russia that will happen to be ruled by Vladimir Putin is now completely different from Russia from the times [...]

Elections in Russia have not lead to any serious consequences. Instead of any  surprise, there is disappointment and a feeling that the political situation in the country is rather immutable. One should also consider future relations between Poland and Russia. They may never improve although the current Polish government has already ensured that the relations [...]

Putin may only become the real alpha male when he reduces the bureaucratic omnipotence. He has to, just as Peter I once did, shave the boyars’ beards. Recent presidential elections in Russia only confirmed what had been expected. Having swept to a clear victory over the rivals in the first round, Vladimir Putin returns  to [...]

I am not deluded by the allegedly changing social situation in the Russian Federation. Extraordinarily as for the Russian standards anti-rule demonstrations did not change anything. Putin easily won the elections in the first round, he lived through one of the biggest crisis in his career and established his position as the head of the [...]

Putin’s choice: heavy industrial and military development On March 4, 2012, following just few hours after the preliminary results, workers of UralVagonZavod, Russia’s biggest producer of tanks and armored vehicles and the largest main battle tank manufacturer in the world, congratulated Vladimir Putin with a victory in the presidential race. Putin addressed tank factory workers [...]

It should be considered if the government’s policy is efficient in realizing Polish interests in the European Union. It is a truism to state that the policy of the Civic Platform is more efficient than the one of the Law and Justice. Changes in the international policy and economic situation cause however that the policy [...]

WASHINGTON – Thirty-seven former U.S. government officials, human rights and democracy advocates and Russia experts warned on Wednesday that the arrest of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov at a demonstration on July 31 and other anti-democratic steps taken by the Russian government constitute an “alarming trend” and that continued abuses should have “serious consequences” for [...]

Paweł Luty: Recently we have experienced a huge crisis between Belarus and Russia over natural gas. Belarus owed Gazprom millions of dollars. Minsk answered that Russians also had not settled their debt for the transit of LPG. Apart from the economic reasons, do you see any other source of the conflict? Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski: [...]