Russia’s budget for 2025: war above all | OSW Centre for Eastern …
Nov 22, 2024 · In 2025, war-related spending will increase significantly. The largest rise in expenditure is planned in the “national defence” section, reaching 13.2 trillion roubles (approximately $132 billion), compared to 10.8 trillion roubles allocated for this purpose in the 2024 budget (a 22.2% increase).This sum is also more than 55% higher than the planned spending on this category in 2023.
Pivot to the east | OSW Centre for Eastern Studies
Nov 6, 2024 · As a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which has been ongoing since 2014, and the ensuing Western sanctions, Russia has reoriented its foreign trade towards the East. This is a permanent shift which stems from Russia’s security objectives. Therefore, the Kremlin aims to further reduce Russia’s dependence on economic ties with Europe and to intensify cooperation with Asian ...
Defence and determination | OSW Centre for Eastern Studies
Oct 29, 2024 · The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has continued for over 30 months, without a clear outcome in sight. Following the unsuccessful Ukrainian offensive in the autumn of 2023, the Russians have taken the initiative on the frontlines; however, no strategic breakthrough has been achieved. In addition to the gruelling positional warfare on land, the Russians have launched devastating air ...
Winning the war with Russia (is still possible)
Oct 28, 2024 · Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine aims to subjugate or destroy Ukraine, overturn the current political and security order in Europe, and fundamentally revise the global order. The conflict is systemic in nature and will continue as long as the dictatorial Putin regime operates in Moscow. Although Russia has not achieved its strategic goals, it is not giving up on its aggressive plans.
The collective economy is ineffective | OSW Centre for Eastern …
Nov 7, 2024 · When compared to other sectors of the Belarusian economy, agriculture is most affected by the country’s Soviet heritage. Since Belarus regained independence, large state-owned farms operating on the basis of the former sovkhozes and kolkhozes have invariably dominated the agricultural sector. Belarus’s agricultural model has effectively been petrified by numerous legal restrictions ...
Turkey: a looming demographic crisis - OSW Centre for Eastern …
Aug 7, 2024 · After many years of rapid population growth, Turkey’s demographic future hangs in the balance. The record-low birth rate in 2023 and the changing age structure indicate that Turkish society is entering a stage of ageing typical for highly developed countries. Regional disparities in this respect are also deepening: the country’s poorer, south-eastern region has a much higher fertility rate ...
Europe’s security without America: an imperative of the moment …
Nov 15, 2024 · For many years, a variety of concepts linked with the so-called European security and defence identity had appeared, vanished and re-emerged in the public space. Numerous terms and ideas related to this concept have been enjoying life of their own. Thus, they have been diverting attention from solutions that are more concrete and realistic from the point of view of Europe’s genuine security ...
Ukraine gets ‘green light’ to attack Russian territory with Western ...
Nov 19, 2024 · On 17 November, Western media outlets including The New York Times and Le Figaro reported that Ukraine had received approval to use US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles and British/French-made Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles against targets on Russian territory. The next morning, these outlets published more nuanced reports, quoting US, UK, and French officials who largely refrained from ...
The Gordian knot of mobilisation: Ukraine balancing the needs of …
Nov 20, 2024 · The increasing number of men who have been granted deferment from military service in recent months and the problems in the implementation of mobilisation plans have urged the Ukrainian authorities to carry out an audit of companies deemed strategically important for national defence. The decision to revise the list of these companies is aimed at reducing the scale of abuse of employee ...
Russia hits transports to Odesa. Day 964 of the war
Oct 15, 2024 · Russian forces continued to operate across a broad frontline in the southern part of the Donetsk Oblast. They are pressing towards Bohoyavlenka, which is supplying Vuhledar and through which the road to Kurakhove leads from the south.