Interviews

14 conversations from 2016–2021 with politicians, military commanders, diplomats and economists – from Radosław Sikorski and Gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak to Prof. Nouriel Roubini. I conducted 12 of them myself: some were recorded for the Historyczny Ambasador blog alongside the Geopolityczna Gra Mocarstw conference, and 11 served as sources for my master's thesis on the geostrategy of the Russian Federation (2019).

interviews

conducted by me

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Views of the recorded interviews

Views of the recorded interviews
Radosław Sikorski	3,900 views
Waldemar Skrzypczak	3,480 views
Leszek Sykulski	3,204 views
Stanisław Koziej	404 views
Cengiz Kamil Fırat	318 views

views as of 20 October 2026

Recordings

Conversations I recorded

Four video interviews made for the Historyczny Ambasador blog alongside the third and fourth editions of the conference – on great-power rivalry, Poland's security and information warfare.

InterviewThe Middle East
Poland can do better in the international rivalry. What does that rivalry look like?
FROM:
Igor Miasnikow
TO:
Radosław Sikorski
DATE:
9 February 2019
A conversation on the possible return of land-power politics, US policy towards its rivals in Eurasia and the quality of the Polish–American alliance, Russia's and Germany's relations with Poland, projects strengthening Poland's connections with Europe, the Polish diplomatic service, the value of developing geopolitics in Poland, and the Middle East conference in Warsaw (February 2019). The master's thesis draws on, among other things, his arguments about the offshore-balancing strategy, the structural financial problems of the United States and the importance of digital skills in the global division of labour.
3,900 views · views as of 20 October 2026
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InterviewPoland's Security and NATO
Military challenges for Poland's strategy in the global great-power game
FROM:
Igor Miasnikow
TO:
Waldemar Skrzypczak
DATE:
9 April 2019
The questions covered the struggle for Eurasia's transport hubs and US power projection, the confrontational nature of American policy, the New Silk Road and the policy of “perfidious Albion”, the world's drift towards polycentrism, the arms trade, the reforms of the Russian army (an army built for regional conflict), the risk of a Russian strike on Donbas or Latvia during a conflict in the South China Sea, the likely axes of attack on Poland, the significance of the war in Ukraine, the Homar and Wisła programmes, and the assessment of Polish soldiers in NATO. The master's thesis cites, among other things, scenarios of amphibious landings on the coast and of thrusts from Suwałki towards Płock and from Brest towards Warsaw.
3,480 views · views as of 20 October 2026
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InterviewRussia and Eurasia
On the polycentrisation of the world and information warfare
FROM:
Igor Miasnikow
TO:
Leszek Sykulski
DATE:
9 April 2019
A conversation on new-generation warfare and the role of social media in achieving geostrategic goals, on whether a “Gerasimov doctrine” exists (in the interviewee's view, it does not), on Project Socrates, the technological race among the great powers, the Three Seas Initiative in US and Chinese strategy, Russian foreign policy and the use of intelligence services. The master's thesis cites his argument that Russia achieves tangible global objectives at low cost (about 1.5% of its budget for Donbas and Syria).
3,204 views · views as of 20 October 2026
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InterviewPoland's Security and NATO
C4ISR in an era of geostrategic challenges for Poland
FROM:
Igor Miasnikow
TO:
Stanisław Koziej
DATE:
15 November 2021
A conversation on deploying sensors across Polish territory, preparing armoured brigades for reconnaissance and for resilience to electronic warfare, decentralising fire assets to division level, the most likely scenario of a war with Russia, and whether the Polish Armed Forces should prepare for offensive or defensive operations.
404 views · views as of 20 October 2026
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Dispatches

All interviews in chronological order

Each dispatch gives the sender, the addressee, the date and subject of the conversation and the interviewee's position on the day. Click to open the full text.

Year

Format

14 of 14 dispatches

2016

InterviewInternational OrderDispatch 01/14
FROM:
Igor Miasnikow
TO:
Bogdan Góralczyk
DATE:
December 2016
SUBJECT:
The Chinese model of economic development
An unrecorded conversation used in the master's thesis to describe the Chinese development model: high export-led growth, subsidised special economic zones, priority for infrastructure investment, agricultural reform and openness to foreign direct investment.[text only]

2017

InterviewThe Middle EastDispatch 02/14
FROM:
Igor Miasnikow
TO:
Piotr Łukasiewicz
DATE:
March 2017
SUBJECT:
Iran and the “pentagon of the Middle East”
A conversation used in the master's thesis to describe Iran as a state able to project power onto five seas – the Caspian, the Mediterranean, the Black, the Red and the Arabian Sea – the so-called pentagon of the Middle East.[text only]

2018

2019

2020

InterviewThe Middle EastDispatch 12/14
FROM:
Historyczny ambasador (questions not attributed to a named author)
TO:
Panos Iordanidis
DATE:
27 October 2020
SUBJECT:
New Pax Mediterranean and Greek-Turkish dispute
A conversation on the rivalry over gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Egypt–Israel–Cyprus–Greece energy axis backed by France, Italy and the United States, and the Turkish–Libyan maritime delimitation agreement of November 2019 as Turkey's attempt to break out of regional isolation.[text only]

2021

Questions and answers

About the interviews

01.

Whom did Igor Miasnikow interview?

Politicians, military commanders, diplomats and economists – including Radosław Sikorski, Gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak, Gen. Stanisław Koziej, Dr Leszek Sykulski, Prof. Nouriel Roubini and Dr Andrey Kortunov. The archive holds 14 interviews from 2016–2021; I conducted 12 of them myself.

02.

Which interviews have a video recording?

5: Radosław Sikorski, Waldemar Skrzypczak, Leszek Sykulski, Cengiz Kamil Fırat, Stanisław Koziej. Together the recordings have gathered 11,306 views (as of 20 October 2026).

03.

What were the unrecorded conversations used for?

11 conversations served as sources for the master's thesis “Geostrategy and economic projects as determinants of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation in Eurasia” (University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Economics, 2019) and are cited in its footnotes.

04.

Did Igor Miasnikow conduct the interview with the Turkish ambassador?

No. The interview with Cengiz Kamil Fırat, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Poland (published 29 October 2021), was conducted by M. Kamiński in the “Embassy of Youths” series; the Historyczny Ambasador blog was the series partner.

05.

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