Category: Russia and CIS
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The future of the Minsk agreements. Escalation in the Donbas region. Part 2.
(This is the second article in the series devoted to the Donbas conflict and the Minsk agreements. Please read also Part 1. Article on the Minsk agreements here) The situation in Donbas hasn’t improved since we published our latest article in March 2020, on the other hand the prospects for the peaceful settlement of the…
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After the outbreak of coronavirus the situation with migrant workers in Russia may worsen. What will be the economic consenquences for the Central Asian republics?
There are around 2,5 million of labor migrants working in Russia, especially in the capital city Moscow. According to the statistics, in 2018 there were around 918 thousand migrant workers from Uzbekistan, 524 thousand from Tajikistan, 265 thousand from Kyrgyzstan, and 164.6 thousand and 105.3 thousand people from Ukraine and Kazakhstan, respectively. Their earnings are…
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Ukraine: reshuffling of the prime minister and proreform ministers. Is Ukraine on the brink of another crisis?
6 months after the landslide victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine the former comedian Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky is unexpectedly reshuffling the prime minister, general prosecutor and some proreform ministers. This replacement comes only 6 months after a new governement in Kiev was formed to push forward reforms and solve crucial economic problems of Ukraine.…
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Minsk agreements cannot be implemented and the signatories of these agreements know about that. But they continue to play politics. Part 1.
The aim of this short analysis is to provide you with an insight on the Minsk agreements (shortly MA) and the practical impossibility to implement them into real life. These agreements were signed (even Russian experts admitted it) under time and external conditions pressure and possibly due to these reasons the texting and concrete measures…
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The author of Russian concept of “sovereign democracy“ Vladislav Surkov dismissed?
Did Vladislav Surkov lost support from the Kremlin? Who is Mr. S or Russian “Grey Cardinal“ and why he suddenly must leave the post? Who would be his successor and what are the consenquences for Ukraine? We found out on 18 February that the person responsible for the Russian policy towards unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia and…
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