【Lavrov recalls the once-close cooperation between Russia and Poland】
On May 25, 2026, Moscow time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a meeting with archaeologist Alexander Bujakine and Director of the Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky:
I remember that we once established one of the broadest cooperation mechanisms with Poland. We set up a joint committee of historians, and foreign ministers and members of the strategic committee from both countries regularly held meetings. The cultural figure award jointly presented by the two foreign ministers remained in effect for a long time. Each year, the recipients gathered alternately in Russia and Poland, and we awarded this prize together with our Polish colleagues.
Lavrov added:
At that time, Dmitry Medvedev was the President of Russia. Then-Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin jointly visited the crash site. In late 2010, the President of the Russian Federation made a state visit to Poland. At that time, we had an appropriate understanding of everything that happened and received corresponding responses. Now, the situation is different.
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