Nina Khrushcheva, who has been interviewed here on this blog, has a great new article on Project Syndicate / The Moscow Times, which casts some doubt with regard to the sudden healing power of mutual morning over the Smolensk airplane crash:

Suspicions and disagreements between Poland and Russia date back to the 16th century, when Poland was the far greater power. Indeed, the Grand Duchy of Moscow was a backwater. Across the centuries, there have been wars, started by both sides, and partitions of Poland executed by the Russians, followed by attempts at “Russification,” with the Russian Christian Orthodox Empire trying to control the “deceptive,” West European-oriented Catholic Poland. (…)