Russia is terminating the agreement with Poland in the field of science

Russia is terminating the agreement with Poland on cooperation in the field of science and technology. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.

In the message of the ministry, published on the official Internet portal of legal information, it is noted that the agreement was terminated last week, May 3.

The arrangements have been in effect since August 1993. The agreement stated that it was signed “taking into account the existing friendly relations between the two states,” RBC notes.

In March of last year, with reference to the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Poland, Wlodzimierz Bernacki, it was reported that the Polish ministry was ending cooperation with Russia in the field of science and technology. At the same time, it became known about the decision of a number of Polish universities to suspend cooperation with scientific institutions in Russia. The decision was connected with the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

Poland, a member of NATO, took one of the toughest positions towards Moscow after the start of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year. The country has accelerated the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers. On May 10, it became known about Warsaw’s decision to change the name of Kaliningrad in official Polish documents to Krulewiec.

The administrative center of the Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland was formerly known as Königsberg. After the Second World War, the USSR annexed this territory and renamed the city Kaliningrad, after the Soviet statesman Mikhail Kalinin. Warsaw claims that Kalinin’s connection with the Katyn massacre in 1940, when thousands of Polish officers were shot by Soviet troops, has a negative connotation in Poland. In Warsaw, they believe that from now on the city should be indicated as Krulewiec, as it was called in the 15th-16th centuries as part of the Polish kingdom.

The Kremlin called Poland’s decision on Kaliningrad a “hostile act”. “This is not even Russophobia anymore, these are such bordering on insanity processes that are taking place in Poland,” Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov said.

Also, on May 10, Jacek Szładewski, the temporary charge d’affaires of Poland in Russia, was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was handed a note of protest in connection with the incident in Warsaw on May 9, when the Russian ambassador Sergey Andreev was not allowed to lay a wreath at the memorial cemetery.