Foreign Ministry protests over BBC report

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Ministry, Artur Dmochowski, lodged a protest to the BBC management in conjunction with a report broadcast by the station. According to the Foreign Ministry it has presented the situation in Poland in a false light. "In our opinion, the report “Is Poland being ‘Putinised?’ ” presented the current political situation in Poland in a superficial and distorted manner, far from the journalistic merits expected from the BBC and in apparent contradiction to some of the broadcaster’s own editorial guidelines," Dmochowski's statement read. The Foreign Ministry accused the BBC of subjective framing of the story, imprecise, emotionally charged language, the omission of important perspective, unjustified conclusions, insufficient research and lack of background knowledge. The letter also said that due to the fact that former Finance Ministry's daughter Maya Rostowska was involved in the production of the report it presented a likely conflict of interest. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said that it will take action with regard to the caricature of Law and Justice head Jarosław Kaczyński, which was paraded through the streets of the German city of Dusseldorf during this year's carnival. "We will diplomatically draw attention to and ask our partners in Germany about the purpose of such antics." Kaczyński was presented in a general's uniform holding a boot over the head of a kneeling woman, a personification of Poland.