OSW Centre for Eastern Studies
Research on the political, economic and social situation in Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia.
About us - OSW Centre for Eastern Studies
The Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) was established in 1990 in Warsaw as a public institution. It was created to meet democratic Poland’s demand for analytical research on the processes …
Operation Midas: the largest corruption scandal within Zelensky’s …
Nov 13, 2025 · 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 …
A dwindling nation. Bulgaria is on the brink of a demographic …
Dec 16, 2024 · 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 …
Wojciech Konończuk | OSW Centre for Eastern Studies
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 …
The vanishing Balkans. The region’s demographic crisis | OSW …
Mar 5, 2025 · The demographic situation in the six Western Balkans countries (WB6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, has been …
Capturing minds and reshaping the world | OSW Centre for …
Dec 30, 2025 · What is this book about? It demonstrates that the current wartime narrative – namely, that “Russia is the victim of a Western conspiracy and bears no responsibility for the …
The shadow of recent glory: the Belarusian IT sector after 2022
Oct 1, 2024 · The rapid growth of the IT sector in Belarus – an ‘island of modernity’ within an outdated economic model, partly based on Soviet-era management and planning standards – …
A disappearing country. Moldova on the verge of a demographic ...
Jan 8, 2025 · [3] For more details on the evolution of the Moldovan economy during the first 25 years of independence, see: K. Całus, The unfinished state. 25 years of independent Moldova, …
Russia against Trump – Moscow’s tough game - osw.waw.pl
Jan 23, 2025 · [9] M. Menkiszak, ‘ The capitulation of Ukraine and the Finlandisation of Europe: Russia’s threats and ‘offers’ ’, OSW Commentaries, no. 606, 18 June 2024, osw.waw.pl.