POLAND: Russia Paranoia Dashed; Foreign Minister Wife's Car Was Not Sabotaged.

WASHINGTON POST BLOG/ Anne Applebaum/
"Some of you may be deeply disappointed to hear this, but let me begin by reassuring all of my readers that no, my car did not blow up last weekend. I’m afraid it simply isn’t true that the Russian mafia are out to get me either. I know it would have been more fun — and for some of you much more satisfying — but alas, I was never under attack at all."

CENTRAL EUROPE: What Did The Fall Of The Wall In 1989 Accomplish?

SLATE/Commentary, Anne Applebaum/
"For some time now, I've been trying to put my finger on what has been bothering me about the exhaustive and perfectly blameless celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There is nothing wrong with holding dozens of conferences, after all, and I'm all in favor of the many new books."

Does America Care About Europe?

SLATE.COM/OPINION: BY Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and wife of Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski/
"Let's be brutally frank: The 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance, celebrated in April, was a bore. The American president was visibly uninterested. His European counterparts, though more accustomed to "celebrations" consisting of somnolent speeches delivered in multilingual bureaucratese, were no more enthusiastic. The affair closed with a limp American request for more troops in Afghanistan, which had almost no echo whatsoever."