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Via Carpatia 2025

Joint institution for information security, EU enlargement, true history as a weapon against propaganda: the most interesting theses of the Forum Via Carpatia 2025 The eighth international forum of Eastern and Central Europe Via Carpatia 2025 was held on November 28 in Lviv. In the focus of the discussions: memory that heals, partnership as a factor of European stability, and democracy as a response to modern authoritarian threats. The head of the subcommittee on...

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Ola Hnatiuk, a Polish scholar of Ukrainian origin, received the Stanisław Vincenz Prize

The Via Carpatia Forum traditionally ended with the awarding ceremony of the Stanisław Vincenz Prize "For Humanistic Service and a Contribution to Regional Development". On November 28, the chapter announced the laureate of the 2025 Stanisław Vincenz Prize. The laureate was Ola Hnatiuk - professor emerita of the University of Warsaw, lecturer at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", translator, historian. Ola Hnatiuk has edited dozens of books, translates modern Ukrainian literature, is...

A Polish-Ukrainian institution is needed to counter Russian disinformation, says Polish Sejm member Paweł Kowal

To separate the Poles and Ukrainians is "political gold" for the Russians, it is necessary to take it from them Pavlo Koval, the head of the international affairs commission of the Seym of the Republic of Poland, said this during the discussion "Integration of Ukraine into the EU. The role and place of Ukrainian-Polish relations in this process" at the Via Carpatia 2025 Forum. "For Russians, the Polish-Ukrainian conflict is "political gold"....

A Democrat in the Era of Totalitarianism: How research on Vasyl Mudry disproves historical myths

The Via Carpatia 2025 forum opened with the presentation of the documentary trilogy "The Art of the Possible: A Democrat in the Era of Dictatorships and Totalitarianism." A large-scale edition dedicated to the figure of the outstanding Ukrainian Vasyl Mudryi (1893–1966), who is one of the key figures of Ukrainian political and public life of the interwar period. He was a deputy and vice-speaker of the Polish Diet, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Dilo" and co-founder and chairman of UNDO. Trilogy…