OSW Centre for Eastern Studies Research on the political, economic and social situation in Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia
OSW Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich Analizy dotyczące sytuacji politycznej, gospodarczej i społecznej w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej, na Bałkanach, na Kaukazie i Azji Centralnej
A dwindling nation. Bulgaria is on the brink of a demographic collapse . . . The greatest challenge Bulgaria will face in the coming decades is addressing the persistent negative trends associated with depopulation The country’s demographic crisis has been worsening for years, with the population steadily declining over the past three decades Bulgarian society, which continues to have one of the lowest average life expectancies in the EU, suffers from a significant
Operation Midas: the largest corruption scandal within Zelensky’s inner . . . On 10 November, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) announced the uncovering of a corruption scandal in the energy sector As part of the 15-month-long Operation Midas, more than 70 searches were conducted, with operational measures targeting, among others, President Zelensky’s friend and former business
The vanishing Balkans. The region’s demographic crisis | OSW Centre for . . . The demographic situation in the six Western Balkans countries (WB6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, has been marked by a steady decline in population over the past two decades During this period, the region’s population has decreased by nearly 2 5 million and now stands at just over 16 million Due to the challenges of economic and
Wojciech Konończuk | OSW Centre for Eastern Studies Wojciech Konończuk Director Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) since 2022 Previously Deputy Director and Head of the Department for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, as well as an analyst on Russia’s energy and foreign policy in OSW’s Russian Department
Regional elites in wartime Russia | OSW Centre for Eastern Studies [8] Idem, ‘Seria powodzi w Rosji: spóźniona reakcja władz’, OSW, 16 April 2024, osw waw pl [9] The executive talent development programme was launched in 2017 under the supervision of Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration and responsible for domestic policy