warsaw the leader of polands ruling party is isolating his country and inadvertently playing into russias hands former deputy prime minister jaroslaw gowin told afp in an interview on tuesdayruled from moscow in communist times poland has since emerged as a noisy critic of russian president vladimir putin and regularly pushes for tough action against the former superpowerbut gowin said moves by jaroslaw kaczynski leader of the law and justice party pis were playing into putins handsthe practical results of his recent activity are much more convergent with russias interests than those of poland he saidi think that kaczynski doesnt realise the consequences of his politicshe is so fanatically convinced that hes right and is going against the views of most of his circlegowin whose agreement party was a junior partner in coalition with kaczynskis pis for years was dismissed last week after growing increasingly at odds with pisone of the reasons for the rupture was a proposed media law that gowin said went against free speech and media pluralism and was harmful for poland both economically and politicallyif adopted the law would force the us group discovery to give up control of the main independent news channel tvn24in addition to sparring with the us which has said it is deeply troubled by the media law poland is also involved in a row with the european union over judicial reformsgowin argues these actions are more beneficial to the kremlin than to polandwarsaws conflicts with berlin brussels and washington and polands isolation in international circles is a dream come true for vladimir putin he saidgowin said he believed the polish government would back down from the most contested parts of its judicial reform programme for fear of losing eu money but had reservations as to whether the climbdown would be genuinei expect the pis will try to replace the current rules with others that are just as unacceptable he saidgowin is known as a flexible player on polands highly polarised political scene having served as a minister in a government led by kaczynskis archrival and former eu chief donald tuskhis departure from the current government has thrown its future into doubt with some observers saying it will not make it to the next elections scheduled for 2023gowin said the pis would probably call elections for the spring of next year and receive the highest number of votes though nowhere near enough for a majority on its owni also believe it wont find any coalition partners in the future parliament he saidgowin said he would be willing to join forces with anyone in the interest of the country adding that he was working towards forming a moderate centreright coalition