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Research on the political, economic and social situation in Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia
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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 that had occurred in the Soviet Union, and later in the states that emerged following its collapse
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- A disappearing country. Moldova on the verge of a demographic . . .
[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, OSW, Warsaw 2016, osw waw pl
- 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 energy and foreign policy in OSW’s Russian Department
- 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
- 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
- Three years of war in Ukraine: the Chinese-Russian alliance passes the . . .
[4] See M Bogusz, ‘China’s challenges in the Indo-Pacific in the shadow of Russian aggression against Ukraine’, OSW Commentary, no 442, 29 April 2022, osw waw pl
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