Russia.

The development of Russia’s only new LNG project, Yamal LNG, that is actually happening fueled speculations on the project being a possible threat to Poland’s LNG terminal. However, the Russian operator itself admitted that it was aiming at Asia because it is a fight worth having – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

What goes on in Poland on the 1st of September.

As part of my work for Free Russia Foundation, I am carrying out research on two projects. The first one is devoted to influencing that Gazprom and its pipeline projects have in the EU. The second is an ongoing project called Underminers which focuses on agents of post-Soviet corruption in the West and will be fully launched […]

The Sieci weekly confirmed the concerns about the inaccuracies which plagued the Yamal contract negotiations for deliveries of Russian gas to Poland. It is high time that the Supreme Audit Office’s (NIK) report on the issue was declassified – writes Wojciech Jakóbik of BiznesAlert.pl.

What goes on in Poland on the 29th of August.

The cooperation between Norway and Poland in the energy sector has recently taken very tangible shape. In 2016, Poland decided to launch the Northern Gate project—a set of gas interconnections aiming to link the Polish gas market with gas deposits on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. With that decision, Poland wants to diversify away from Russia […]

While analysing the relation between Nord Stream 2 (NS2) and European policy making, the reference point should be the statement of the German Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, who, during a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin in October 2015, declared, regarding NS2, that Germany will “ensure that all this remains under the competence of the German […]

Putting lipstick on the mining pig is now at full throttle and I guess nobody but me actually cares. I am only wondering what will happen when they run out of this fantastic lipstick, writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from Gazeta Prawna daily (DGP). 

What goes on in Poland on the 21st of August.

China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) project was formally introduced by Chinese President Xi-Jinping in 2013. The project, aimed at integrating trade and investment in Eurasia, encompasses over $900 billion in planned investments of infrastructure across Central and South Asia, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).