I am hopeful that there will not be a third world war, but I am pessimistic about Ukraine – says British historian Martyn Rady.

interview Europe still has enormous soft power. It’s one of our problems – says Timothy Garton Ash in an interview with Aleksander Kaczorowski.

“Writing a biography is not a job for a person who wants to be a saint,” Artur Domosławski writes in his book, quoting a friend. One might add that a saintly hero is poor material for a biographer.