WARSAW — In the broader discussion about Russia’s war on Ukraine, an important but overlooked element is the exodus of Russians from their homeland.

WARSAW — Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has once again demonstrated the lengths to which he will go to crack down on his opponents.

WARSAW — Over the past six months, Poland’s government coalition, comprising Law and Justice (PiS) and two tiny parties, had been decaying markedly, creating a golden opportunity for the opposition to oust it.

WARSAW — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent annual address on the state of his country was so ostentatiously threatening as to sound reassuring. Not only did he forbid the West from crossing red lines; he announced that he himself would determine where those lines are.

WARSAW — US President Joe Biden is very familiar with both Poland and Ukraine. His decades of service as a United States senator and his eight years as vice president under Barack Obama taught him that the two countries are among America’s most devoted friends and allies.

MINSK — At some point, all dictators start to believe their own lies.

MINSK — August 14 marked a symbolic breakthrough in Belarus.

WARSAW — According to recent reports, the US Department of State warned Poland’s foreign ministry that it would suspend high-level meetings if the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party enacted a new law making it illegal to insinuate Polish culpability in crimes committed by the Naz

Late in the afternoon on October 19, a 54-year-old man outside the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw distributed several dozen copies of a letter addressed to the Polish people. Then he set himself on fire.The text of the letter is eminently rational.