Polish Dy PM| India News
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Sunday said his country gave Russian President Vladimir Putin constant encouragement to converge with the West, but he refused, fearing Russia would later become “a rival pole of integration”. It was Putin’s decision not to join the West; We gave all encouragement: Polish Dy PM Speaking at a session — ‘A continent in crisis: Russia, Ukraine, and the European story’ — moderated by the former Indian envoy Navtej Sarna at the 19th Japiur Literature Festival, Sikorski said, “Vladimir Putin was the first leader of Russia who came on the anniversary of the Second World War, which meant that he was willing to join the European narrative of where and why WWII started, instead of the Stalinist version. He appeared to be very close to condemning the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. That’s a big thing. He also visited Katyn, which is the the place of a massacre of Polish people by the Soviets in 1940,” said Sikorski. He, however, believed that Putin feared that Russia would become a rival pole of …
