Prof. Aleksandr Butiagin is an archaeologist, working all day in the most celebrated Petersburg museum – Ermitage. His technological achievements rise respect worldwide.
It primarily deals with antiquity with peculiar attention to the influences and artifacts of Hellen. He late gave a series of lectures on Pompeii. He appeared in Prague on 1 December. On 2 December, he gave a lecture on Pompeii in Amsterdam. On 4 December, Pompei was to tell in Warsaw about the last days to go to Belgrade on the next day. His technological publications are cited in the most renowned technological writings. Since 1999, he has been active in archaeological excavations and investigation in Crimea, regardless of the nationality of this peninsula.
The Czech and Dutch authorities did not make any obstacles to its technological activities. Lectures by a Russian student attracted considerable interest not only among specialists, but besides wider audiences curious in the field of discipline and its achievements. Butiagin never engaged politically, nor spoke of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. He stayed in the European Union legally and did not engage in any suspicious activity. Polish services boasted that they had stopped and arrested him before breakfast in 1 of the Warsaw hotels. He went to jail for 40 days, where he is expected to be extradited to Ukraine. Ukrainians accuse him of illegal excavation work in Kercz, Crimea. Illegal due to the fact that led after joining the peninsula to Russia in 2014. He is facing death or torture in Ukrainian detention. At best, it will go to the resources of hostages held by Kiev to exchange them with Russia for Ukrainian prisoners.
Polish services do not cross a certain line for the first time. Before that, they had besides exceeded it in relation to their own citizens. Sławomir Nowak was held in Polish detention in connection with allegations of alleged corruption crimes which he was to commit in Ukraine. Janusz Niedźwiecki spent 4 years in custody of a “temporary” fishy and accused of cooperating with legal opposition parties in Ukraine. The undersigned besides spent almost 3 years in custody on the basis of allegations made by Ukrainian sources to Polish authorities, primarily the safety Service of Ukraine.
Yes – it is the same service (SBU) that carried out terrorist attacks, crimes, killings and was behind repression against average Ukrainians. The same, from which the order with a dumb grin was accepted by the editor-in-chief of PiSowska “Gazeta Polska” Piotr Sakiewicz. Can you imagine that any of the Polish journalists, politicians or public figures accept a discrimination from the Russian FSB or the Belarusian KGB? Nope. And rightly – the practice awarded by abroad peculiar services looks like any kind of aberration and constitutes a direct, public confession to interact with abroad intelligence. Did Sakiewicz hear the charges? No – he was hoarded by the ruling party, fed like a pigsty by successive orders of advertising from state companies for his rag.
However, let us go to a somewhat more general level. Ukraine has subjected itself in various ways to the Polish official, political and law enforcement classes. SBU may order the arrest and arrest of any individual – both a Pole and a third-country national. This is an highly dangerous situation. This is due to the fact that the abroad service known for its abuse, corruption and crime uses its cones in the neighbouring country, theoretically democratic and law-abiding. As a result, each of us in our own country may be the victim of Ukrainian service associates located among our politicians, prosecutors or peculiar services. Everyone knows that, including the interior safety Agency. most likely any Polish officers even rebel somehow, but only internally, due to the fact that they are yet discipline-based uniformed services. During the times of the Law and Justice, the then press spokesperson of the Ministry of abroad Affairs described us all as “ministers of Ukraine”. It's worse. Polish authorities play the function of the inferior minions of the Kiev hatchets from the darkest star. They are ready to execute their most stupid, illegal orders and orders.
What are their motives? We don't know. any point to the alleged Podkarpackie affair and the compromising materials that SBU is to have on the Polish political class. I besides heard from Ukrainians years ago about the behaviour of any Polish politicians visiting Kiev Majdan. Many of them had not only a busy social life in a abroad capital, but most likely besides had intimate business talks. In a word: the Butiagin case shows one more time where our country is today. Its structures without disgust are ready to execute the most absurd orders from decision-makers from beyond our southeast border. Poland has succumbed to the powerful power of neighboring powers more than erstwhile in its history. But now it is under force from a crumbling, chaotic and corrupt country which, in the present formula, poses a threat not only to its own citizens but besides to the people of neighbouring countries.
Mateusz Piskorski
Think Poland, No. 51-52 (21-28.12.2025)
