Polish magazine accused of threatening Russian-Polish ties

Published 10 March 2010

Soviet writer Stanislav Kunyayev has accused Polish literary magazine Novaya Polsha of publishing extremist articles that threaten the ties between Poland and Russia.

Novaya Polsha is published in the Russian language in Poland and distributed in Russia.

Kunyayev, the editor-in-chief of Russian literary magazine Nash Sovremennik, said the complaint was part of a campaign he had launched against the publication for carrying such articles.

The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to meet Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on 7 April for a visit to Katyn, a Russian village, where Polish soldiers were massacred during the World World II.

"I think they are doing everything possible to distort the history of our relationship," Kunyayev told The Moscow Times on Tuesday.

Novaya Polsha editor-in-chief Jerzy Pomyanovsky has dismissed the complaint as "the wildest nonsense".

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