Poland will create a commission to study the “Russian influence” in the last 20 years

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law establishing a commission that will study Russia’s influence on security in the republic over the past 20 years. About it informs local publication Polsat News.

According to the President of Poland, “it is necessary to study Russian influence not only in Poland, but throughout the European Union.” He asked the Prime Minister to raise this issue in the European Council.

It is assumed that the commission will investigate “the activities of state officials and senior leaders in the period from 2007 to 2022, who could be under the influence of Russia and act to the detriment of the republic.” There will be nine people in the commission, who will be appointed and dismissed by the Seimas, clarifies WPROST.

Polsat News adds that opposition deputies consider the goal of this law to be the elimination of Duda’s opponent Donald Tusk.

Earlier, the Russian authorities have repeatedly called Poland’s policy towards Russia a manifestation of Russophobia. On May 10, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Poland’s actions “border on insanity.” Thus, he commented on the idea of ​​Warsaw to abandon the traditional name of Kaliningrad and use the name “Krulewiec” instead, as well as the disruption of the wreath-laying ceremony by Russian diplomats in Warsaw on 9 May.

Earlier in May, it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland submitted to the government a draft resolution on a temporary ban on entry into the country of heavy trucks registered in Russia and Belarus. “Border freight traffic at checkpoints across the border with Belarus for trucks, tractors, trailers, including semi-trailers and road trains registered in the republic or the Russian Federation, is suspended until further notice,” the document says.

The explanatory note to the document specifies that such a measure is aimed at ensuring the country’s public security. According to the Polish edition of Wprost Biznes, the decision may be a response to offer to block the movement of Polish trucks on the territory of Russia.