Radek Sikorski

Radosław (Radek) Sikorski (born February 23 , 1963 in Bydgoszcz ), is a Conservative Polish Politician , Journalist and the current Minister Of National Defence (as of 2006 ).

He was much involved in the Solidarity unrest in the later 1970s , chairing the student strike committee in Bydgoszcz. Stranded in Britain when martial law was declared in his homeland in 1981 , he studied Philosophy , Politics and Economics at Pembroke College , University Of Oxford . He then worked as a journalist. In 1984 , he took British citizenship. In the mid 1980s , Sikorski worked as war correspondent in Afghanistan .

Returning to Poland, in 1992 he briefly became deputy defence minister in the Jan Olszewski government. From 1998 to 2001 he served as deputy minister of foreign affairs in Jerzy Buzek government. From 2002 to 2005 he was resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative. He returned to government in Poland as defense minister in 2005 .

He is married to the American journalist and historian Anne Applebaum and they have two children, Alexander and Tadeusz.

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