The expected EFSD credit, the improved foreign trade performance and the turn in the oil market significantly reduce the risks of financial imbalance of the Belarusian economy. The most acute is the issue of economic recession and worsening of the social situation among the population. (PDF) Pavel Kirkovsky
This paper was prepared within the framework of the ongoing discussion on the current crisis in Russia-West security relations organized by the European Leadership Network (ELN). (PDF) Oleksandr Tytarchuk
Joint Comments of FPRI and EESRI Foundation to the Questionnaire on Perceptions of the OSCE and Proposals for the Future Work of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions. Presented during the Second OSCE Network’s Meeting held in Hamburg on February 24, 2016. (PDF)
The most important event of January was the comprehensive inspection of the Armed Forces. The issues of strengthening protection of the state border by the army were discussed as part of the inspection. The measures were taken for staffing with the reservists of the Special Operation Forces. In the Vitebsk region, the 103rd mobile brigade completed the task of defeating the conditional illegal group armed with “lightly armored and other equipment.” (PDF) Andrei Porotnikov
The deteriorated economic situation poses a tangle of serious problems to the authorities, the most difficult of which are: the lack of resources to service the external national debt, problems with the budget execution and the risk of further GDP decline. (PDF) Pavel Kirkovsky
Armenia’s strong dependence on Russia has now become not only a source of democratic deficit as well as of economic and demographic problems, but also a security threat for Armenia, as regional security risks continue to grow, and Yerevan may be dragged directly into the Russo-Turkish confrontation. (PDF) Armen Grigoryan
