Russia.

The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATS), which was adopted with near unanimous support from both chambers of the US Congress (98-2 in Senate; and 419-3 in the House of Representatives), imposes significant new sanctions upon Russia. This development response follows the Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukrainian territory, its involvement in Syria, as well […]

Russian gas supplier Gazprom continues to violate technical requirements of the transit contract with Naftogaz, failing to maintain gas pressure in Russian trunk pipelines at Sudzha entry point located on the Ukraine-Russia border.

The course of the joint Russian-Belarussian strategic exercises Zapad 2017 confirmed the forecasts of the Warsaw Institute analysts presented in the report of September 13. The Russians did not use the drills to attack any of the neighboring countries, nor did they take the opportunity to start the occupation of Belarus or to deploy any […]

The Polish-Ukrainian Gas Forum which I had the pleasure to moderate was a feast for natural gas sector analysts. Poland and Ukraine want to cooperate, but both countries want to be exporters, not importers of gas. Their plans may converge as part of the regional gas hub unless they do not lose to vested interests […]

Dmitry K., the Russian agent of influence deported from Poland has links with a Russian think-tank, which is a lot more than a regular analytical institution. RISI is full of former and active Russian intelligence officers. It was involved not only in the plan to swing the presidential elections in the US and Bulgaria, but […]

All companies that use gas use Gaz-System’s transmission infrastructure as well. Therefore, an adequate fee should be added to the operator’s tariff. This would make the increase universal and small – writes Teresa Wójcik, editor at BiznesAlert.pl. 

I have previously published Polish government’s documents, that concluded that controversial pipelines from Russia to Germany should be a subject to EU legislation. This may reduce its harmfulness for Central and Eastern Europe markets or even – in case of Nord Stream 2 – block the construction. Poles’ new opinion confirms it – writes Wojciech […]

After the failure to subject the controversial Nord Stream 2 project to the Third Energy Package and to acquire the mandate to negotiate a legal regime with Russia, the European Commission wants to update the offshore pipelines regulations to finally apply the EU law to the project – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

Wednesday 18 October 2017 POLICY DIALOGUE Nord Stream 2: Assessing the economic and security impact on Central and Eastern Europe  Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark Stefan Moser Head of Unit for Security of Supply, DG Energy, European Commission Peter Kotek Senior Research Associate, Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research Nemunas Biknius Strategy Director, EPSO-G […]

What goes on in Poland on the 13th of October.