Unnur ORRADÓTTIR RAMETTE: Iceland wants a peaceful and sustainable development in the Arctic Region
Unnur ORRADÓTTIR RAMETTE

Unnur ORRADÓTTIR RAMETTE

Iceland wants a peaceful and sustainable development in the Arctic Region

The Arctic is home to about 4 million people and comprises territories of eight sovereign States. Its population has the same right to sustainable development as the rest of the world, including the right to social and economic development through the sustainable use of their natural resources.

Prof. Serhy YEKELCZYK: Homage to Poland
Prof. Serhy YEKELCHYK

Prof. Serhy YEKELCHYK

Homage to Poland

When I was growing up in Soviet Ukraine, Poland appeared enigmatic to me—it was both attractive and dangerous, a place from which Ukrainian visitors brought magazines that seemed glamorous by our standards, music LPs, and chewing gum.

Prof. Piotr GLIŃSKI: Poland. Always on the side of freedom
Prof. Piotr GLIŃSKI

Prof. Piotr GLIŃSKI

Poland. Always on the side of freedom

This should come as no surprise, given that the world did not know about Polish history. It did not know that the Poles value most of all freedom and a sense of community and that, in the face of unprecedented criminal aggression against the country with which we share some past grievances, solidarity in defence of those values comes first.

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK: Ukraine and the rejection of imperial enslavement
Prof. Andrzej NOWAK

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK

Ukraine and the rejection of imperial enslavement

So fascinating to Angela Merkel, Catherine II liquidated Sich by violence – the last refuge of self-government for free Cossacks under her rule, the last vestige of Ukraine’s political tradition.

Prof. Wojciech ROSZKOWSKI: Freedom is indivisible
Prof. Wojciech ROSZKOWSKI

Prof. Wojciech ROSZKOWSKI

Freedom is indivisible

Today war, and an exceptionally cruel one at that, is close at hand, and so many people in the West are surprised that Ukrainians do not want to surrender, that they do not want to be Russian. Why is the determination of the Ukrainians not understood in the West?

Jan ROKITA: Abandonment and obliteration
Jan ROKITA

Jan ROKITA

Abandonment and obliteration

The abandonment by the Allies and the subsequent erasure of a nation and its culture by an occupying power – this is the greatest collective trauma of the Poles, going even deeper than the history of the Second World War. And also the very core of Polish sensitivity to the world.

Diane FRANCIS: The Time of Poland
Diane FRANCIS

Diane FRANCIS

The Time of Poland

Poland has become a pillar of security on the Alliance’s eastern flank thanks to the country’s tremendous economic development, which has helped fund the rapid modernisation and expansion of the national armed forces.

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK: Polish mad love for freedom
Prof. Andrzej NOWAK

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK

Polish mad love for freedom

Rising up results from a change in circumstance. In other words, rising is a reaction to a fall. But it is not the only one. Having fallen down or having been knocked over and pulverised, you can either rise again or simply get used to your supine position.

Robert KOSTRO: The European Formation Laboratory
Robert KOSTRO

Robert KOSTRO

The European Formation Laboratory

The January Uprising offered a fair chance to break the solidarity of the three partitioners and gain the support of the Western powers, France and Great Britain.

Karol NAWROCKI: German Denial
Karol NAWROCKI

Karol NAWROCKI

German Denial

The German crimes of the Second World War cannot be reduced to Nazism or the Holocaust. Without a convergence of political views on this issue, genuine Polish-German reconciliation will be difficult.

Karol NAWROCKI: Polish Relay for Freedom
Karol NAWROCKI

Karol NAWROCKI

Polish Relay for Freedom

Poles have always refused to their fate being decided by others. The nineteenth-century January Uprising – a heroic guerrilla war against the Russian occupier – fits in this attitude.

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK: Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians do not bow their heads
Prof. Andrzej NOWAK

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK

Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians do not bow their heads

2023 marks the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising. Despite the passage of years, the echoes of this uprising are still present in public debate. An important, albeit challenging, question ‘to fight (for one’s country’s freedom) or not to fight?’ is still being asked in Central Europe.

Artur SZKLENER: Frederic Chopin - poet of Polish freedom
Artur SZKLENER

Artur SZKLENER

Frederic Chopin - poet of Polish freedom

One hundred sixty years ago, in September 1863, during the January Uprising, the Russians demolished the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw, throwing the piano once played by Fryderyk Chopin out of the building’s window. The moment made history.

Eryk MISTEWICZ: 250 years of fighting Russian imperialism
Eryk MISTEWICZ

Eryk MISTEWICZ

250 years of fighting Russian imperialism

For more than 250 years, Central Europe has been struggling with the same problem. 160 years ago, an uprising sparked off in which Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians stood together against the despotism of the Russian tsar and Russian imperialism. Today those nations are uniting to support Ukraine.

Prof. John FERRIS: Polish Intelligence and the Road to Ultra, 1925-45
Prof. John FERRIS

Prof. John FERRIS

Polish Intelligence and the Road to Ultra, 1925-45

The common view that Ultra shaved two years off the war is hard to sustain, but it did save the allies months in time and hundreds of thousands of lives. Britons and Poles can take pride in that achievement. Neither needs to exaggerate it