State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin speaks to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill at Russia's National Defence Control Centre in Moscow in December last year. Photograph: Sergey Fadeichev/Sputnik/AFP/Getty A top-ranking Russian politician has called for a ban on Polish trucks transiting onto Russian territory and for Poland to compensate Moscow financially for what he said was the Soviet rebuilding of the east European country after the second World War. In a statement, Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said Poland needed to be punished for having “betrayed the historical memory” of the Soviet Union’s liberation of...