It was supposed to be a great breakthrough seen to by the European Union: Russian gas was to start flowing yesterday via Ukraine to the west and the cold Balkans.

Press reviewed by Joanna Najfeld.

But the agreement did not last even two hours, writes GAZETA WYBORCZA on the front page, reporting on the events of Tuesday, when Russians started sending gas to Ukraine again, but in too little quantities for the Ukrainian system to be able to send it further to Europe. So the transport was stopped again. European Commission head called the Russian president Vladimir Putin to express disappointment at the fact and also at Moscow's and Kiev's refusal to admit EU experts to the gas pipes management centers in both countries. Now the EU is considering introducing sanctions on those guilty of the crisis, writes GAZETA WYBORCZA.

"The European Union made in Russia" - this is the ironic comment on the situation by Piotr Gabryel, a commentator for the RZECZPOSPOLITA daily. For two weeks, Europe has been under the strict rule of the Russian Premier, writes Gabryel. First, in the middle of the cold winter, he cut gas supplies and then he started the old KGB/FSB game. European leaders are working their heads off trying to fix the crisis, while Russians are forcing the blame on Ukraine. All this in the face of obvious facts: Russia has broken the agreements it signed on gas supplies to European states. What else do we need to prove their guilt? asks the columnist. As much as it is possible, Europe must turn its back on the Russian gas, he advises.

Also in RZECZPOSPOLITA, Grzegorz Górny, a Catholic writer and journalist writes about the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, "the man who did a lot to pull down the walls of hostility between Catholics and Protestants in the US", as Górny calls the priest. Górny reminds the story of Fr. Neuhaus, going back to the times when he was a Lutheran minister, an active member of the pacifist and civil rights movements, and a close associate of Martin Luther King. Fr. Neuhaus left the circles of the generation '68 when the movement betrayed the ideals of liberalism, by starting to promote abortion, an ultimate form of discrimination and exclusion of the weakest. He then spent 17 years helping the poorest in one of Brooklyn's most needy parishes, where he observed how the welfare state was pushing people into poverty, making them dependent and isolating them in ghettos. These observations made him change his political alliances to the right. In the meantime, he converted to Catholicism and became active in the ecumenical movement. He founded "First Things" - a periodical arguing for the rights of the silent majority in the public debate. Fr. Neuhaus became known as the spiritual leader most often quoted by President George W. Bush. Towards his death he got more and more involved in the right to life and natural family civic movement.

A movie on the life of Irena Sendler, a heroic defender of life of Jewish children during World War Two is expected to premiere in Poland this Fall, reports DZIENNIK. The American production will first be shown in the US in April, as it is made by Poles and Americans for the American CBS network. The authors have previously been involved in the making of a movie about John Paul II. The leading role will be played by a New Zealander, Anna Paquin, known from "Amistad" and "The Piano" movies.