"Though Poland traditionally maintains contacts with Europe, with France most of all, the Slav unity does exists, whether we like it or not. The European Union is a big structure which contains a lot of positive things from political and economic points of view, but in the sphere of culture the Poles will nevertheless have a bent for Russia, because these are century-old contacts, and not simply the whims of the intellectuals," Mikhail Shvydkoy said.
The round-table conference, with the participation of Polish and Russian intelligentsia, the heads of the big mass media and personalities from culture, was organised on the initiative of the Polish and Russian Ministers of Culture a year and a half ago.
It is expected that similar round-table conferences will be held once or twice a year, alternately in Russia and in Poland, Shvydkoy said.
