It must be stated clearly – if there were any objections, this information should have been communicated to Adam Borowski earlier, not on the evening before the event, which shows it was a deliberate action. And the fact that editor Piotr Lisiewicz is not being allowed into the Sejm by Włodzimierz Czarzasty does not surprise us. We are dealing with a man who is corrupt, a bad person. Let us not be surprised that he makes such decisions, said Law and Justice (PiS) MP Andrzej Śliwka on TV Republika.
Adam Borowski, a legendary opposition activist, is the organizer of the Chechen conference marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Dzhokhar Dudayev, held under the slogan “Unbroken Chechnya”. It is scheduled to begin on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in the Column Hall of the Sejm.
As reported on Wednesday by the Niezalezna.pl portal, Adam Borowski said that 96 individuals заслуженных for Chechnya were invited to the conference, many of whom had to flee their homeland due to Russian aggression and persecution. Only 34 invited guests were granted permission to enter the Sejm. According to Borowski, among the 62 individuals denied entry are “those who support Chechen units in Ukraine.” Permission was also denied to the well-known human rights defender Said-Amin Ibragimov, a Chechen politician and independence activist associated with Dzhokhar Dudayev’s camp during the First Chechen War in the 1990s.
By decision of the Sejm authorities, Piotr Lisiewicz, deputy editor-in-chief of “Gazeta Polska”, will also not be allowed to attend the conference.
Since the morning hours, Adam Borowski has been present in the Sejm, attempting to find out why some participants were not allowed into the parliamentary building. He did not receive a reliable explanation.
Today on TV Republika, the station’s program director Michał Rachoń recalled a fragment of a document declassified by the United Right government in 2023. The excerpt comes from the book “Zgoda”, co-authored by the journalist together with Professor Sławomir Cenckiewicz. It refers to a report from an inspection carried out at the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) in 2016. Regarding the Chechen issue, it stated:
“In March 2011, there was an exchange of correspondence indicating the FSB’s interest in obtaining information on Chechen matters (a request to share materials held by the Polish side), while the Polish side expressed readiness to begin talks on closer cooperation with the FSB. According to available documentation, between March and August 2011 no meetings took place between the Polish and Russian sides.”
As the journalist added, three pages later there is a passage concerning the circumstances of the start of formal cooperation:
“On October 18, 2011, the Head of the SKW – Janusz Nosek – requested the Prime Minister – Donald Tusk – to consent to formal cooperation with the Russian Federation’s special services. The Prime Minister granted approval in the form of a handwritten note on the aforementioned document. It was established that a document was prepared in the Office of the Head of the SKW in connection with his appearance before the Sejm Committee for Special Services, which includes information about the Prime Minister’s renewed consent of November 20, 2012, issued on his behalf by Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister Jacek Cichocki, for cooperation with the Russian Federation’s special services.”
“The entire coalition bears responsibility for this. Today, the people responsible for this are governing Poland’s security system,” the journalist said.
A guest of Michał Rachoń was Andrzej Śliwka, an MP from Law and Justice (PiS). He admitted he was familiar with the document.
“This is one of the documents that shows how Donald Tusk’s government operated. This was an example from 2007-2014. What is happening now – we do not fully know. However, this was only one of many actions, as similar things occurred with Belarusian opposition figures. This was the case, among others, in the matter of Ales Bialiatski, where both prosecutors and Minister Sikorski provided detailed sensitive data about Belarusian opposition activists to the authorities. The same applied to Chechens who fought against Vladimir Putin’s imperial state, against the system he created. This is conduct that clearly shows us today that Poland is governed by people who, if they can, accommodate criminals. They accommodate those who kill – not, as Sikorski says, ‘retail’ killings, but commit mass acts of genocide. What happened in Chechnya was the cornerstone of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. I do not know all the people who were invited, but Adam Borowski is someone who has always exercised due diligence,” the politician said.
“Out of 96 people, 60 were not granted permission to enter. Among them – Piotr Lisiewicz, deputy editor-in-chief of ‘Gazeta Polska’. A man who has been documenting the crimes of the Russian Federation in detail for decades,” Rachoń pointed out.
It must be stated clearly – if there were any objections, this information should have been communicated to Adam Borowski earlier, not on the evening before the event, which shows it was a deliberate action. And the fact that editor Lisiewicz is not being allowed into the Sejm by Włodzimierz Czarzasty does not surprise us. We are dealing with a man who is corrupt, a bad person. Let us not be surprised that he makes such decisions. Responsibility for this lies with all those who raised their hands to elect him Speaker of the Sejm, Śliwka concluded.
