The Katyn massacre of Polish officers and...

These issues sometimes provoke outbursts of raw emotion – a regular feature of parliaments around the world – and the Polish media naturally shine a spotlight on these outbursts. This kind of reporting overshadows the more numerous positive developments in the two countries’ relations. Incidentally, it was the Congress of People’s Deputies (Soviet parliament) in 1990 that acknowledged the existence of secret protocols to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which paved the way for an open discussion of Katyn.

True, parliamentary resolutions are sometimes counterproductive. Last year, the Polish parliament passed a resolution on the 1939-1941 events to mark the anniversary of the September 17, 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. This resolution contained elements of an accusation of genocide, and my colleagues in the Duma demanded an equally harsh resolution in response. But I tried to persuade my colleagues that we needed to break this vicious circle of blame and

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