Russia Monitor Monthly 7/23
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WI Daily News – Three Seas Foreign Ministers’ meeting to be held today
Daily dose of the most important news regarding Polish international cooperation, affairs & activity abroad.
Russia Is the Main Oil Supplier for Belarus. An Alternative? Symbolic
Following an oil struggle between Belarus and Russia, there have occurred some shifts in how Minsk buys its crude supplies. Its purchases come mostly from Russia yet with no firm guarantees.
Hungary to Join TurkStream Gas Pipeline
The supervisory board of Hungary’s pipeline operator FGSZ greenlighted a plan of investment into the construction of a gas pipeline to Serbia by October 2021, the company said in a statement.
An Increase in U.S. and Russian Aerial Activity over the North Pacific
The United States has taken action to respond to Russia’s beefed-up aerial activity around each other’s border in the Pacific. Recent weeks have seen a couple of incidents with both sides intercepting each other’s planes flying towards the two’s borders.
Rosneft-Transneft War: Russian Oil Pipeline Operator Warns of Financial Disaster
Russian oil pipeline operator Transneft has reiterated the company would be in big trouble once oil transportation costs slumped significantly sometime soon, halving the company’s total income.
Lukoil Starts Drilling in the Caspian Sea
Russian oil major Lukoil said it has started drilling of an exploration well at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya prospect structure north of the V.I. Grayfer oilfield. The company has also begun to study Khazri and Titonskaya features in the south of the same sea area.
Russia’s Urals Exports to Plunge Sharply in July
Russia’s exports of its flagship Urals crude oil grade are set to plunge in July by 40 percent from June levels to about 785,000 barrels a day.
Russia Is Afraid of U.S. Troops Moving from Germany to Poland
The Trump administration agreed that an additional 1,000 U.S. troops would be added to Poland, the sole outcome of the latest round of the U.S.-Polish talks that confirmed what the two parties had concluded a year ago. In Moscow, many say that would push the balance of power throughout the region in favor of NATO countries.
Did Russian Intelligence Officers Offer Taliban Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops?
Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed the US or allied troops there, according to the latest press reports some would see as not surprising.
How civil society can change the world | LIVE stream
The Warsaw Institute Review has the honor to announce the upcoming expert event „How civil society can change the world” on Wednesday, on July 1 at 8 PM (CET)!
WI Daily News – Poland wants the US to be included in EU military cooperation and projects under PESCO defence policy
Daily dose of the most important news regarding Polish international cooperation, affairs & activity abroad.
Will America Punish Germany?
Claiming that Berlin is not paying enough towards NATO, on 15th June 2020 President Donald Trump declared a reduction in the number of U.S. troops stationed in Germany. If his words become reality, the contingent of US soldiers stationed in the NATO’s northern flank will be diminished by as much as 9 500.
Chinese dilemmas in NATO
The strategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China will be the most serious test for the North Atlantic Alliance in the upcoming decades. The maintenance of stability in Europe and, globally, the future of the West as the dominant actor in international relations will depend on the ability to find a compromise within NATO, and more broadly – at the level of transatlantic relations.
Summary: The More-than-a-Middle East – the situation in the region and its implications for Poland
In an online debate organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Warsaw Institute and the Regional Center for International Debate, which took place on 25th June 2020, the invited guests spoke about these geopolitical phenomena, dynamics in the region and their impact on the current situation of Poland.
President of the Warsaw Institute Foundation comments for El País
Julia Grzybowska, President of the Warsaw Institute Foundation, spoke to the Spanish daily El País about the consensus among the majority of the Polish political class and society for increasing the presence of US troops in Poland in the context of President Andrzej Duda’s visit to Washington.
WI Daily News – Polish MFA supports political transformation and reform process in Sudan.
Daily dose of the most important news regarding Polish international cooperation, affairs & activity abroad.
Trump’s peace plan in the Middle East – summary of the debate
On 28th January 2020 the US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People” plan. Due to the fact that the negotiations did not include the Palestinian side, the Plan was rejected by the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab League.
Paul Whelan: A Victim of FSB Provocation
There is yet another sign that Paul Whelan, the former marine detained on spy charges, was taken as collateral in negotiations to free Russian agents being held in U.S. prisons. The American is not going to appeal his prison sentence, his lawyer said.
WI Daily News – Poland and US strengthen ties | Polish humanitarian aid for Ukraine and Moldova
Daily dose of the most important news regarding Polish international cooperation, affairs & activity abroad.
The Epoch Times cites the Warsaw Institute
In its text on the Polish President Andrzej Duda’s visit to USA, The Epoch Times cited an article from Warsaw Institute by the Polish Ambassador in Washington Piotr Wilczek.
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