The flight-disaster that consumed Poland’s president and dozens of the nation’s senior figures may be followed by a lasting improvement in relations between Warsaw and Moscow, says Krzysztof Bobinski.
A small crowd gathers at midnight on 13 December 2008 outside a modest house in Warsaw. It is an annual event.
The scenario outside the darkened house hardly changes from
The irony was clear. Inside Warsaw's Stalin-era Pałac Kultury i Nauki (Palace of Culture), Europe's Christian Democrat leaders were reverentially watching a film about Solidarity'
The European Union's "Eastern Partnership" seemed a vaguely good idea at the time. The moment when the mood of slightly quizzical approbation that has surrounded it
An early sign of how the financial crisis in east-central Europe in February 2009 was being perceived in the west came in a major feature in the Financial Times. The
It seems that even late in the 21st-century's first decade much of humanity is still living in the turn-of-the-millennium mood that half expects the world to come to
The headlines in Poland's main daily newspapers were unanimous. Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Moscow and Tbilisi on 8 September 2008 to seek assurances from the Russians
The stork stood on one leg in the nest on the barn roof, gazing serenely out over the fields in central Poland. Below, the weekender dachistas chattered over their nibbles
The euphoric mood still lingers in Poland, especially in the major cities like Warsaw which voted so decisively on 21 October 2007 to get rid of the traditionalist Law &
Partners behave better towards each other during the courtship than they do after a year or two of marriage. Poland's ruling Kaczynski twins - Lech, the president, and
Few of today's Europeans looking at a photograph of the event will be able to recognise the twelve politicians who signed the Treaty of Rome on 25 March
Hungary has been providing a double spectacle this week, as commemorations of the anniversary of the 1956 uprising against the Soviets collide with ongoing opposition protests against the governing social-democrat-led
