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Institutions with direct Russian influence
Organizations which spread Russian values and statements in a direct way are connected to Mr.
Mateusz Piskorski, leader of the openly pro-Russian Change party (Zmiana). Mateusz’s role is
unquestionable, since Polish counter-intelligence arrested him in May, 2016 and he is currently
in detention on charges of spying for Russia. 207 The most important organization is the European
Centre for Geopolitical Analyses (Europejskie Centrum Analiz Geopolitycznych, ECAG), a thinkthank,
which cooperates on ideological grounds with the political party Change (Zmiana) and with
the Ukrainian Committee (Komitet Ukraiński) as well. Mr. Piskorski is a deputy chief editor of
ECAG and its portal geopolityka.org. 208 He has been a regular „election observer” during several
elections in the former USSR territories or the CEE region, where official Russian election
monitoring activities have been conducted. Zmiana president 209 and President of the Foundation
International Institute of Newly Established States (Fundacja Międzynarodowy Instytut Nowych
Państw, FMINP). 210 The President of the Ukrainian Committee 211 Tomasz Jankowski is the Zmiana
Secretary, 212 who formerly was an associate of Piskorski, when Piskorski was a spokesman of the
political party Samoobrona. Statements of these institutions have some common content: they
present anti-Western rhetoric and disagree with the democratic political system and liberalism in
general. They treat the Color Revolutions as a threat to the status quo and official authorities.
Editors of geopolityka.org are invited to give opinions to pravda.ru, 213 Golosrossii 214 and Russia
Today. 215 In Poland, however, they are marginal entities.
Change (Zmiana), a rather value oriented political party that maintains that during the past
26 years Poland has been a “half-colonial market for Western companies and a cheap workforce
reservoir.” Change focuses on regaining the sovereignty of the fatherland, “true” Polish raison
d’état and peaceful coexistence.
Camp of Great Poland (Obóz Wielkiej Polski, OWP) is an association established in 2003. The name
and their ideology refer to the interwar organization bearing the same name. Self-described as a
“third way,” they pretend to represent the whole nation. The main goal of the recreation of the
OWP was to “consolidate the ‘National Movement’” in Poland and “to recover stolen property and
obtain Poland’s due place among European countries.” 216 One of the members of this organization,
Dawid Hudziec, is an editor and a journalist of the Polish-Language portal of Novorossiya Today
News Agency. 217
The Eurasian Youth Union (Euroazjatycki Związek Młodzieży; EZM), is the least known group of
pro-Russian organizations in Poland. There is no official webpage of this entity, and it is a part of
the Eurasian Youth Union 218 (Евразийский союз молодёжи), a Russian organization established
in 2005, which is part of International Eurasian Movement 219 (Международное Евразийское
Движение; MED).
207 Poland detains pro-Kremlin party leader for spying.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/19/poland-detains-pro-kremlin-party-leader-mateuszpiskorski-spying
208 See: www.geopolityka.org/redakcja-portalu/redakcja-portalu
209 See: www.partia-zmiana.pl/biography
210 See: www.krs-online.com.pl/fundacja-miedzynarodowy-instytut-nowych-krs-817242.html
211 See: www.komitet-ukrainski.pl
212 See: www.partia-zmiana.pl/biography
213 See: www.pravda.ru/news/expert/20-06-2014/1212855-konrad-0
214 See: www.pl.sputniknews.com/polish.ruvr.ru/2014_12_15/O-wizycie-Petro-Poroszenki-w-Polsce-6869
215 See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbCGjjJIQK8
216 See: http://goo.gl/WwoLxw
217 See: www.novorossia.today/opinie/dawid-hudziec
218 See: www.rossia3.ru
219 See: www.med.org.ru
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