“Will a visit of the Chechen leader spark an international scandal?” wonders Gazeta Wyborcza. Akhmed Zakayev, PM of the Chechen government in exile, is to attend the third World Chechen Congress beginning today in Pułtusk. Meanwhile Russia, which issued an international arrest warrant for Zakayev in 2001, has accused him of terrorism and wants him extradited. According to the daily, Poland has no alternative but to “detain Zakayev” once he crosses the border. Polish courts will then have to decide whether he can be extradited to Russia. Zakayev has been twice detained in the UK and Denmark, but neither country found him guilty of terrorism and thus refused to hand him over to Russia. In 2003, the Chechen leader was granted political asylum in the UK.
The leader of Greece’s leftist alliance SYRIZA is the new bright hope of Greek politics. Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel's austerity policies. 
Europe’s economic woes have forced us to try to understand the secret Olympian world of global finance. But now that we pay more attention to bond yields and stability mechanisms, isn’t it clear that the experts up on their lofty peaks don’t know what’s going on either? 
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is hosted by Azerbaijan, a country that is far from being a model democracy. An Estonian journalist takes a critical look at the deferential treatment enjoyed by the regime in Baku.