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This article is an attempt to answer the question, in what way Rossica (various references to Russia and Soviet Union) are used as a tool of current political conflict in contemporary Poland and in what way and to what degree negative stereotype of Moscow was created in Polish right-wing political discourse. The research of Polish media proved that this stereotype is based on some components of denotative meaning of the toponym Moscow ‘the capital of Russia and former Soviet Union’ and the invariant of this meaning ‘the centre of Russian and (before) Soviet politics’. This stereotype is supported, on the one hand, by strong selfstereotype of a Pole as a “bearer” of freedom and civilisation of the West as opposed to Russian despotism and Asianism, and on the other hand − by politically pronounced anti- Russianism. In the author’s opinion, the source of such attitude is the broad paradigm of Polish − Russian relations. He believes that the reason for negative connotations and contexts of numerous usages of Rossica in Polish texts can also be explained in this dimension.