Mirosław Filipowicz, Professor of history at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Since 2013, he has also been a Director of the Institute of East-Central Europe, a research institute supervised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Since November 2016, a Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Polish-Russian Group for the Difficult Issues and Polish co-chairman of the Group. He specialises in Russian history and historiography, American-Russian historiography, and the history of Polish-Russian relations. Since 2012 prof. Filipowicz coordinates a Polish-Russian scholarly project entitled Poland-Russia: Is it a fatalism of enmity? Towards a new historical approach, prepared by Polish and Russian historians and teachers of history. The Russian partner of the Institute of East-Central Europe is the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Privately, Prof. Filipowicz is a great lover of classical music, Kyung-Wha Chung and Myung-Whun Chung performances included.