[RussianBoor]

Basically, now I understand a little bit better why Great Powers decided to bother with partitions of Poland. It seems these guys could not be reasonable even at that times and the only thing they were able to understand was brutal force. I wish Ekaterina the Great would not participate in this affair though. Polish uprising of 1830 did a lot to turn Nikolaus I into authoritarian emperor and dashed all hopes of reforms in Russia. We never had anything but trouble from Poland. Fortunately, except Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg, we do not have common borders and Poles are not our problem now.

[jb6]

Polish hatred (as seen by many though not all) will be a problem for quite some time, especially since they have a bigger form to work in. The best thing Russia can do is blockade all trade with Poland. Continue building the northern European gas/oil line, especially through the neutral waters and cut the dependence of shipping through Poland (and their fat tariffs off of it too).