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... Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the debaters, among them Polish diplomats, focused on the forthcoming NATO summit in Warsaw and its impact on relations between Russia and the West, ways to bolster European security, the Middle East, and future relations between Russia and Poland.
On February 11, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation Mrs. Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, and discussed topical issues of Russian-Polish relations, problems of implementing Minsk Agreements on Ukraine, relations between Russia and NATO and the future of European security. Andrey Kortunov ...
... current leadership sees it as the role of the country, within the framework of NATO, to contain Russia, as well as to play a more active part in Central European and Ukrainian affairs. This will further complicate humanitarian projects and links between Poland and Russia, which have practically ground to a halt anyway, and the Polish authorities will continue to talk about the plane crash near Smolensk that happened over five years ago. Warsaw’s traditional politics will thus begin to exert an even greater ...
... true that Germany was divided into two blocs, with East Germany and East Berlin under Soviet Union’s control, and that they fought against each other during WWI and WWII; however, this relationship cannot be compared to the kind of relations that Russia had with Poland and Lithuania. The latter two had indeed lived the last few centuries, already from the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in mid 18th century, under constant military threat of Russia. It should come as no surprise that, as ...
... against further EU integration, which is – according to the party – eroding Polish state sovereignty and national identity, and rejects EU mainstream politics “driven” by Germany, including the ‘weak’ policy towards Russia. It is, however, difficult to imagine Poland taking on an adverse political approach towards the EU and reaching for itself more satisfactory results than the current ones now that Law and Justice party has won the parliamentary elections. Poland will probably be more active in speaking loud ...
On September 3, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Director of Carnegie Moscow Center Dmitry Trenin and President of the Russian Insurers Association Igor Yurgens visited the Residence of Polish Ambassador in Moscow to meet Polish former foreign minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld, co-chairman of Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters. The discussion was moderated by Polish ...
Poland sees Russia as a pre-eminent threat Poland sees Russia as a pre-eminent threat. This has been the essence of speeches made by Andrzej Duda, the newly appointed President who has called for additional security guarantees from NATO and has plans to create ...
... parties agree to this this will mark the first time heavy weapons have been deployed on the territory of countries of the former socialist bloc. . REUTERS/Ints Kalnins Yuri Nadtochei: Back to Lafayette The interest expressed by Baltic countries and Poland in having a U.S. military presence is no longer surprising at all. But why are Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, which do not even share borders with Russia, expressing a similar desire? These countries are characterized by extremely low ratio of military expenses versus GDP : Bulgaria and Romania spend 1.3-1.4% of GDP on army needs, while Hungary spends only 0.9% of GDP on the military. Given the ...
... the dynamic role of the Visegrad countries in the CEE policies of the European Union. Director of RAS Institute for European Studies Alexey Gromyko underlined the importance of the Visegrad Group for development of its member states and cooperation of Russia with Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Ambassador Priputen summed up the results of the Slovak presidency in the Visegrad Group. Roundtable "The Visegrad Europe and Russia Today"
... citizen. Yet Central Europe politics rarely do without weaving and maneuvering. Five years ago, during the celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, it was again Komorowski who told Russian President Medvedev that “ any citizen of Russia should take pride in the victory in 1945 ”, just as he was proud of his father who, “hand in hand with Soviet soldiers”, went as far as Dresden. In 2015, Komorowski says that “ 9 May is not a celebration for Poland ”, and the celebration of the Great Victory is transferred to 8 May. In the European Union, no-one will take much notice of such steps, thought the initial thrust came down specifically to demonstration (suppressed by the socialist regime) ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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