Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center

The Financial Times' East Europe correspondent Stefan Wagstyl comments in the paper on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Poland to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the second world war - a move which he says "belies deep divisions about the war, its causes and its consequences".

Wagstyl notes: "After a flurry of open discussion in the 1990s the authorities have restricted the public airing of difficult issues such as Soviet war crimes. Just as Mr Putin has clamped down on political life, he has tightened the screw on history, notably with a law criminalizing the ‘falsification of history'."