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Ukraine and Poland: History Repeats Itself

8:52 09.11.2024 Denis Baturin

Ukraine and Poland: History Repeats Itself

The latest spat between Warsaw and Kyiv is predictable and merely confirms the known truth: history repeats itself. A recent survey conducted by the United Surveys sociological service at the request of the Wirtualna Polska online portal reveals Polish public opinion on relations with Ukraine.[i] According to the survey, 61.3% …

Poland – a long way to see the obvious

11:53 14.03.2024 Andrey Kadomtsev

Poland – a long way to see the obvious

As Polish media reports, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has acknowledged that the 2010 air crash near Smolensk which claimed the lives of the then President Lech Kaczynski and a number of high-ranking government officials was an “accident”, not an “assassination”. Only 14 years after did Warsaw come to such a …

Polish dispute over Operation Vistula – what for?

11:41 11.01.2024 Vladislav Gulevich

Polish dispute over Operation Vistula – what for?

Prosecutor’s Office of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has stopped the inquiry into a criminal case on Operation Vistula of 1947, in which thousands of Ukrainians and Lemkos were forcibly resettled from the eastern regions of the Polish People’s Republic to western areas with a view to neutralize …

Ukraine vs neighbors: who owes “lands” and who to?

11:51 25.10.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

Ukraine vs neighbors: who owes “lands” and who to?

Ukraine borders on four EU countries – Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Slovakia. Of these four countries, only Slovakia has no territorial claims on Ukraine. The other three has territorial claims to Ukraine at historical identity level and at domestic policy level. At times, these claims make themselves felt in the …

Poland feels bitter: Ukraine walked off to the Germans?

11:07 13.10.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland feels bitter: Ukraine walked off to the Germans?

Poland is unhappy with Kyiv gravitating towards Berlin, away from Warsaw. This is what Polish strategists warned about back at the dawn of the 20th century, but Poland’s current authorities just wouldn’t listen. Jozef Pilsudski's political opponent, Roman Dmowski, wrote during the 1930s that in Austrian Galicia the Ukrainian project …

About Ukrainian nation and its problems

11:15 20.07.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

About Ukrainian nation and its problems

The painful process of building a Ukrainian nation as a self-reliant ethno-political entity gives rise to a host of wild legal initiatives, resulting from stability-lacking Ukrainian statehood. A petition demanding an 8-year sentence for abusive treatment of citizens “who acknowledge their belonging to the Ukrainian nation” which has been posted …

Poland wants to “develop” Ukrainian culture

9:29 07.07.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland wants to “develop” Ukrainian culture

Poland views Ukrainian culture as an auxiliary propaganda tool in the battle against Russia and Russian culture. A conclusion to this effect could be made in the aftermath of a statement by Poland’s Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Glinski about Warsaw’s intention to “assist in the development of …

Poland vs Germany: staking on Ukraine

10:17 01.06.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland vs Germany: staking on Ukraine

Warsaw's claims that Germany is not doing enough in terms of military assistance to Ukraine, coupled with a demand for financial reparations for the damage caused to Poland during World War II all stem from Poland's desire to squeeze Germany out of the European political stage. (1) At the heart …

Another Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Europe?

12:40 19.04.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

Another Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Europe?

President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine has said there will soon be no political, economic or historical borders between Ukraine and Poland. This statement, which the Ukrainian leader made as he met with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, has become the subject of speculation across global media. Shortly before the visit …

Poland’s geopolitical ambitions are a threat to Europe

10:14 22.12.2022 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland’s geopolitical ambitions are a threat to Europe

Poland has been participating in the bloody events in Ukraine from the very start with Warsaw providing financial and organizational support for the 2014 constitutional coup in Kyiv. The artificial ramping up of tensions in the region, skillfully stoked up by Washington is in Poland’s best interest, turning the country …

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