Interviews Archives

The votes of the Moldovan diaspora changed the results

Interview with Moldovan political scientist Oktawian Milewski. Interviewers: Nina Pániková and Adam Reichardt.

November 5, 2024 - Adam Reichardt Nina Pániková Oktawian Milewski

Russia must be held accountable for its war

An interview with Bartosz Cichocki, former Polish ambassador to Ukraine. Interviewers: Andrii Kutsyk and Kateryna Kyrychenko.

October 28, 2024 - Andrii Kutsyk Bartosz Cichocki Kateryna Kyrychenko

The border with Belarus is a challenge for the state, not a threat to the Polish people

Interview with Mirosław Różański, a Polish general and senator. Interviewer: Jarosław Kociszewski.

September 28, 2024 - Jarosław Kociszewski Mirosław Różański

Chișinău at a crossroads? City mayor discusses the refugee crisis, EU integration and Moldova’s future

An interview with Ion Ceban, the mayor of Chișinău. Interviewer: Adam Reichardt

September 16, 2024 - Adam Reichardt Ion Ceban

Putin is caught like a rabbit in the headlights

An interview with Col. Philip Ingram (ret.), former UK military intelligence officer and NATO planner. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze

September 10, 2024 - Philip Ingram Vazha Tavberidze

Ukraine is creating a system of large-scale humanitarian demining, for which there are no models in the world today

Interview with Ihor Bezkaravaynyi, Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine. Interviewer: Kateryna Pryshchepa.

August 7, 2024 - Ihor Bezkaravainy Kateryna Pryshchepa

The Belarus of Vasil Bykaŭ is in our interest

Interview with Joanna Bernatowicz, a translator of the most important Belarusian writer of the 20th century. Interviewer: Wojciech Pokora.

July 20, 2024 - Wojciech Pokora

Exploring crime fiction, war and Ukrainian literature

Interview with crime author Kseniya Tsyhanchuk. Interviewer: Kinga Anna Gajda.

July 3, 2024 - Kinga Gajda Kseniya Tsyhanchuk

How Putin entangled Germany in Schröder’s net

An interview with Markus Wehner and Reinhard Bingener, authors of The Moscow Connection. The Schröder Network and Germany’s Path to Dependency. Interviewer: Jarosław Kociszewski

JAROSŁAW KOCISZEWSKI: After reading your book The Moscow Connection. The Schröder Network and Germany's Path to Dependency, I had an impression that what you wrote about Russia, and especially about the Kremlin’s connections with German politicians, was very well-known already in Poland, but also in other parts of Central and Eastern Europe. How new was this information for the German audience?

REINHARD BINGENER: I think this information was partly new and partly old. Many of the things that we wrote about in the book were known before the information was public. However, this information was released over time and therefore there was a lack of a broader picture. Our idea was to combine the facts and present this big picture.

June 22, 2024 - Jarosław Kociszewski Markus Wehner Reinhard Bingener

Making the invisible seen. The Baltic struggle for independence

A conversation with Una Bergmane, author of Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Interviewer: Maciek Makulski

MACIEJ MAKULSKI: How did you arrive at the point when you thought that there is still much to uncover when it comes to our understanding of the processes around the collapse of the Soviet Union and the regaining of independence by the Baltic states?

UNA BERGMANE: I would probably say by accident, since I wanted to write a master's thesis about French-Baltic relations in the 1920s and 30s when the Baltic states were independent before the Soviet occupation. But then I discovered that there was already a doctoral dissertation just defended in Paris on that very topic. So I started then to look at what seemed like the next logical thing – what France did when the Baltic countries wanted to become independent again at the end of the 1980s. What was interesting for me initially was the discrepancy between what I saw in the French archives.

June 22, 2024 - Maciej Makulski Una Bergmane