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Polish President Andrzej Duda (C) at an observation point of the EU Mission in Armenia. Image via Polish President's office
Armenia

Polish President Duda’s visit to Armenia sparks political tussle with Azerbaijan

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The recent visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda to Armenia sparked a minor political crisis in Polish–Azerbaijani relations after Duda included a brief stop at an observation point of the EU Mission in Armenia.  On Wednesday, Duda’s office shared news about the trip to the observation point, located in the village of Karki, noting that the deputy head of the mission is a Polish national, Marek Kuberski.  The mission was established in February 2023 with a preliminary two-year timeline,

Ramzan Kadyrov responding to the Polish PM in a video on Telegram.
Chechnya

Ramzan Kadyrov: ‘where was Europe when we fought for independence?’

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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has hit back at the Polish Prime Minister’s suggestion that Chechnya ‘deserves independence’, accusing Europe of failing to support Chechens during their fight for independence during the 1990s. In a video on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Kadyrov claimed he was ‘an ardent Ichkerian’. ‘It was you who did not allow us to build our state’, he said. Kadyrov, along with his father, Akhmat Kadyrov, defected from the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria to Russia d

Georgian homophobic protesters separated from an anti-violence rally by police with the leader of the Polish conservatives, Jarosław Kaczyński in the background. Illustration: Dominik K Cagara/OC Media.
European Union

Opinion | Will Georgia follow Poland in the global right-wing revolution?

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Many Georgians rushed to blame Russia’s interference for this week’s homophobic violence in Tbilisi. However, Poland’s democratic decline offers a better framework to understand what the future holds for Georgia. When a priest from the Ertatsminda Church, some 50 km west of Tbilisi, found out I was Polish, he became very enthusiastic. He told me he loved the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, for declaring that marriage was a union between man and woman, and for fighting against the ‘LGBT agend

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