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“Russian disinformation is effective primarily because it exploits pre-existing divisions rather than creating them from scratch”

An interview with Kinga Anna Gajda, director of the Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Interviewer: Iwona Reichardt.

July 13, 2026 - Iwona Reichardt Kinga Gajda

“Ukrainian citizens are not a burden, but a benefit to Poland”

An interview with Maciej Duszczyk, an employee and adviser on migration to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, and a professor at the University of Warsaw. Interviewer: Andrii Kutsyk.

May 14, 2026 - Andrii Kutsyk Maciej Duszczyk

In the spiral of misperceptions. Polish-Ukrainian relations with the backdrop of Russian invasion

Without solving historical issues, Polish-Ukrainian relations will be neither healed nor improved. They are burdened by a dispute over the commemoration of Polish victims on Ukrainian soil from the Second World War, as well as diverging perceptions of Polish involvement in helping Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion.

December 4, 2024 - Tadeusz Iwański

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

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

“We need to tame Przemyśl with its own complex history”

Interview with Igor Horkov, director of the Ukrainian House in Przemyśl. Interviewer: Nikodem Szczygłowski.

May 17, 2024 - Igor Horków Nikodem Szczygłowski

The (in)famous Dovbush. A robber of trust?

A review of Dovbush. A film directed by Oles Sanin. Distributed by Film.Ua Distribution Kinomania, Ukraine (2023).

February 7, 2024 - Grzegorz Szymborski

Wind of change

Despite another win for Law and Justice, the three voting blocks of the democratic opposition are most likely to form a coalition government led by Donald Tusk.

October 17, 2023 - Daniel Gleichgewicht

Polish-Ukrainian relations: between the diplomatic crisis and another strategic communications failure

The grain issue that has persisted between Poland and Ukraine has become a real diplomatic crisis. While this rift will be seized on in Moscow, it is important to note that mistakes were made on both sides. Acknowledging this reality can only strengthen links between these close allies.

October 12, 2023 - Adam Lelonek

Nothing new in the East? The Polish Orientalism

As the most powerful state on the EU and NATO’s Eastern Flank, Poland has been cast in the role of a new regional power in recent months. The country will now allegedly be able to shape developments in Eastern Europe and even farther into the East. However, Warsaw will face a serious challenge to live up to its geopolitical ambitions if it does not rethink its own Orientalism.

May 29, 2023 - Adam Balcer

What the past is for. Polish-Ukrainian memory politics and Putin’s war

Despite contentious differences in memory, Polish-Ukrainian relations have remained close and notably strong in important national moments. This reflects two aspects of Polish society: a generation of youth acclimated to supporting Ukrainian sovereignty with compassion, and a national memory politics which allows humanitarianism, but only when it fits into a politically suitable narrative.

In 2003 the Polish philosopher and historian of ideas Leszek Kołakowski gave a speech at the American Library of Congress titled, “What the Past is For”. Kołakowski believed that history serves not to predict the future nor to gain technical advice on how to deal with the present, but to discover the values constitutive of human identities. He told his listeners that “to say that [the events of the past] do not matter to our lives would be almost as silly as saying that it would not matter to me if I were suddenly to erase from my memory my own past personal life … The history of past generations is our history, and we need to know it in order to be aware of our identity; in the same sense in which my own memory builds my personal identity, makes me a human subject.”

December 7, 2022 - Daniel Edison

The Russian invasion has united Poland and Ukraine, two countries with a fractious history

Poland has proven to be one of Ukraine’s most steadfast allies in recent years and especially since Russia’s invasion in February. Despite this, the two countries have not always been so close. Understandings of their shared history could now prove crucial to the future of this new alliance.

May 27, 2022 - Nikolas Kozloff

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