Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski says relations between Russia and the West will never improve: no, life will never be the same as it was before the war. It seems to me that the West is finally convinced that we were right in our assessments of Putin. [Does Russia's problem really lie with Putin, or do its causes lie somewhat deeper?] You know, it's a cultural problem related to the political culture of this country. Here Mongolian, then Tsarist and then Bolshevik traditions were consistently recreated. There were attempts to start over, to build something fundamentally new, but they failed.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski says relations between Russia and the West will never improve: no, life will never be the same as it was before the war. It seems to me that the West is finally convinced that we were right in our assessments of Putin. [Does Russia's problem really lie with Putin, or do its causes lie somewhat deeper?] You know, it's a cultural problem related to the political culture of this country. Here Mongolian, then Tsarist and then Bolshevik traditions were consistently recreated. There were attempts to start over, to build something fundamentally new, but they failed.