Director of the Military Historical Bureau Sławomir Cenckiewicz, Adviser to the President of the Republic of Poland Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz, Member of the Council of the President of the Republic of Poland for Foreign Policy Prof. Przemysław Żurawski, aka Grajewski, and historians associated with the Institute of National Remembrance are PiS candidates for the Russian Influence Commission.
We know the names of the candidates for the Russian Influence Committee
The names of nine candidates nominated for the Russian Influence Commission of Inquiry were published on the Sejm’s website. Only the PiS club indicated its candidates. The opposition believes the committee is illegal and the clubs KO, PSL and Lewica have not put forward any candidates. However, PiS has proposed nine names, and that is the number of members the committee should count. This means that if the parliamentary majority appoints them, the work of the committee will continue without the individuals proposed by the opposition clubs.
According to the information on the Sejm website, PiS wants the director of the Military History Bureau to sit on the committee Slawomir Cenckiewiczadviser to the president, Prof. Andrew ZybertowiczChairman of the Security and Defense Council of the President of the Republic of Poland Prof. Przemysław Żurawski, also known as Grajewski and Łukasz Cigotura, Michał Wojnowski, Marek Czeszkiewicz, Marek Szymaniak, Arkadiusz Puławski, and Andrzej Kowalski**.
The applicant of the presented candidacies is PiS Member of Parliament Piotr Kaleta.
Who are the candidates?
As we read in the parliamentary press: Slawomir Cenckiewicz is a historian, professor at the Academy of War Arts, director of the Military Historical Bureau of Lieutenant General K. Sosnkowski. In the years 2016-2021, he served as Vice President of the Board of the Institute of National Remembrance; Vice-President of the Archives Board of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (second term, from 2016); Institute of National Remembrance – Advisor to the President of the Institute of National Remembrance (since 2022); Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Archive and Information Management Service (2022-2023); Chancellery of the Prime Minister (2023).
It was emphasized that Cenckiewicz is the author of more than 200 scholarly works on recent history (including more than 30 books). Chairman of the WSI Liquidation Committee (2006), Adviser to the Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (2006), Plenipotentiary of the Ministry of National Defense for Reform of Military Records (2016). He has a personal security clearance under the top secret clause of the SKW.
Education, extensive professional experience, as well as a high level of substantive knowledge and impeccable character guarantee a good interpretation by mr.
– this was emphasized in Cenckiewicz’s candidacy.
prof. Przemysław Żurawski, also known as Grajewski is – as indicated in the print – since 2015 a member of the Program Council of PISM and OSW, in the years 2015-2020 the coordinator of the Security, Defense and Foreign Policy Section of the National Development Council under the President of the Republic of Poland. In 2017–2020 he was a lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Member of the Political Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Witold Waszczykowski (2015–2018) and Zbigniew Rau (since 2020), Adviser to the President of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (2017–2019). From December 2020 Permanent Adviser to the Sejm Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. From 8 April 2021 member of the Council of the President of the Republic of Poland for Foreign Policy. Author of 9 books and 122 scientific articles
prof. Andrew Zybertowicz is a sociologist, analyst, publicist and author of books. As noted in the press, in 2007 he was the chief adviser to then Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński; in 2008-2010 – adviser to President Lech Kaczyński. Since 2015, he has been an adviser to President Andrzej Duda and an adviser to the heads of the National Security Bureau – Paweł Soloch and Jacek Siewiera. Since 2016, Zybertowicz has been Head of the Center for Studies on Civilization Challenges at the Academy of War Arts.
Another PiS candidate for the committee – Michal Wojnowski – is a historian and analyst. In the years 2006-2018 was a specialist at the Institute of National Remembrance, currently an Eastbound Internal Security Agency expert and an expert from the Prime Minister’s Chancellery’s Department of National Security, working with the Government Center for Safety. Member of the research team “Faces and Metamorphoses of Russian Empires”, led by Prof. Andrzej Nowak as part of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has a personal security clearance under the top secret clause of the Internal Security Agency.
Marek Szymaniak in the years 2006-2017 and again from 2023, working, among others, at the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Bydgoszcz and Warsaw in the scientific field. From 2017 he was employed at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk as the head of the Scientific Department, from 2021 as the Deputy Director of the Museum of the Second World War for research (supervising and coordinating the work of the substantive departments, including scientific publications, publications, collections and others).
Arkadiusz Pulawski is a philologist with a translation specialization. From July 2016, employee of the National Security Service of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, first as a chief specialist, then as an adviser and now as a deputy director. As emphasized, Puławski has a personal security clearance under the top secret clause of the Internal Security Service.
Andrew Kowalski is a Brigadier General of the Polish Army. In the years 1994-2002 he was an officer of the State Protection Bureau (counterintelligence), then the Internal Security Service (2002-2006, counterintelligence) and the Military Counterintelligence Service (2006-2008, counterintelligence). From 2015 head of the Military Intelligence Service, in 2020 professor at the Academy for War Studies, from 2021 civilian employee of the Military Counterintelligence Service.
Another PiS candidate for the committee is Mark Czeszkiewicz – Lawyer, Judge of the State Tribunal of the 8th and 9th terms of the Sejm and former among others: District Prosecutor, Deputy Regional Prosecutor in Białystok, Director of the Regional Office of the CBA in Rzeszów, Advisor to the Marshal of the Sejm, Member of the Board of Examiners for the training of lawyers at the Minister of Justice.
Lukasz Cigotura is a doctor of humanities, deputy director of the Military Historical Bureau of Lieutenant General K. Sosnkowski, employee of the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute of National Remembrance. He has a personal security clearance under the top secret clause of the SKW.
It is possible that the Sejm will select members of the committee during Wednesday’s session.
Study Committee on Russian Influence
On May 31, the law on the establishment of a commission to investigate Russian influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in the years 2007-2022 came into force, which the president signed a few days earlier and at the same time announced that it would be referred to the Constitutional Court. Then, on June 2, Andrzej Duda submitted a draft amendment to this law to the Sejm. The Sejm passed it on June 16. On June 28, delegates rejected the Senate’s objection to this amendment. The president signed the amendment on July 31. It came into effect in August.
According to the presidential amendment, parliamentarians cannot sit on the committee investigating Russian influence, countermeasures previously contained in the law have been abolished (including the prohibition on exercising functions related to making public funds available to a maximum period of ten years), and the main subject of the committee will be the acknowledgment that the person does not guarantee the proper performance of activities in the public interest; The decision of the commission must be appealed to the Court of Appeal in Warsaw.
Under the law, the commission consists of nine members of the rank of secretary of state, appointed and dismissed by the Sejm. The right to submit no more than 9 candidates for members of the committee to the Marshal of the Sejm shall be granted to each deputy or parliamentary club within the time limit specified by the Marshal.
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Source: wPolityce