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Poland's Pope passes away
Pope John Paul II passed away on Saturday night. Poles came out onto the streets to mourn his death, turning the streets of towns and cities across the country ... | Comment |
Pope John Paul II passes, Varsovians mourn
Saturday night, at 10:00 PM, the metro has stopped. A moment of silence – passengers bow their heads, a woman reaches into her purse for a tissue. Walking out... | Comment |
Pope's Condition Worsens
Late Thursday night, light in the Pope’s apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square became a beacon to the world, announcing something was not right... | Current Affairs |
Controversial New Memorial
Recently, President Ilham Alijew of Azerbaijan visited with Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Poland is interested in projects Azerbaijan has presented ... | City Focus |
Fall Of Media Mogul
A Warsaw court has ruled that Polish film producer Lew Rywin must start serving his two year prison term later this month. Rywin was convicted of fraud last yea... | Current Affairs |
The Value of Junk Metal
After the EU gates opened to Poland, roughly 800,000 old cars were driven in. Over one-third of the cars on Polish roads today are over 15 years old. What we ... | Business |
Debt Solution Approved
Poland's government approved an early buyback of a large chunk of communist-era debt to a group of six countries in the Paris Club, a government official said T... | Comment |
Smigus Dingus
The sun may well shine on Easter Monday, but even if this is so, we warmly recommend that ladies of a faint-hearted disposition carry an umbrella about their pe... | Comment |
Russians Respond To Roundabout Rap
In riposte to the Warsaw city authorities announcement that they will name a roundabout after fallen Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, Moscow has announced plans... | Current Affairs |
Polish Journalists Released
Belarusian authorities have released three Polish journalists who were briefly detained for lacking proper media credentials.
One of the reporters, Marcin Sm... | Current Affairs |
Alleged Drug Ring Broken
Six Polish and Kurdish men were charged Monday with smuggling amphetamines to Norway in specially built car batteries.
"I can confirm that we have arrested s... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Spring
A few years ago, Warsaw was famous - or rather infamous - for being one of the least attractive of Eastern Europe's destinations. Much as we love the place, it ... | City Focus |
Roundabout Rumpus
Russia on Monday accused the Warsaw city council of supporting international terrorism by naming a roundabout after a Chechen rebel leader.
"It is difficul... | Current Affairs |
Nuclear Poland
Poland might be see nuclear power facilities on the horizon in the next few years. With the EU concerned with air pollution and wanting to decrease CO2 emissio... | Current Affairs |
Protest to save popular Warsaw club
Since early Monday morning, about 200 people have sat outside the alternative club and art gallery, Le Madame, protesting its closure. The artists, students, a... | City Focus |
A Royal Treat
The smash art exhibition of the season has just opened it's appropriately grand doors at the Royal Castle. 'Light And Shadow: Four Centuries Of French Painting ... | Art and Culture |
Kacznyski Touts New Warsaw Museum
Today only one synagogue survives from pre-war Warsaw. The scuffed turn-of-the-century tiles are silent witnesses of a world that was all but extinguished under... | Comment |
Poland Unveils Poster Of Pope
A large poster depicting Pope John Paul II is on display in downtown Warsaw, giving the city a taste of the contemporary art that will be on display in a planne... | Art and Culture |
Pope Publishes New Memoir
The latest book by Polish-born Pope John Paul hit bookstores in his native land on Monday, amid great interest from fellow Poles.
The pope's fifth book, Mem... | Current Affairs |
Russia Says Katyn Executions Not Genocide
Russia denied on Friday that the 1940 execution of 15,000 Polish prisoners of war by Soviet secret police was genocide, dismaying Poland's chief war crimes inve... | Current Affairs |
Poles Turn Out For Tibetans
More than 300 people gathered Thursday in front of Chinese Embassy in Warsaw tto commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising against Chin... | Current Affairs |
Poland Arrests 'Spy'
Polish authorities said on Wednesday they had arrested an aide to a prominent parliamentarian, accusing him of spying for a "big neighbour" – a clear reference ... | Current Affairs |
Poland Denounces Chechen Killing
Poland on Wednesday condemned the killing of Chechen guerrilla chief Aslan Maskhadov by Russian forces as a "crime" and said it was a mistake because he was the... | Current Affairs |
US Looks East
U.S. firms expect the 10 new members of the European Union to invest, rather than traditional countries such as Germany, the EU Observer reported.
In a repor... | Business |
EU Report Predicts Ebb
According to the latest forecasts, in 2005 the Polish economy will grow much slower than anticipated a few months ago with GDP growing by 3.5%-4.8%.
Accordi... | Business |
Kwasniewski Dodges The Heat
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski was criticized Tuesday for failing to appear before a parliamentary commission investigating privatization fraud.
Kwa... | Current Affairs |
Russians Finish Chechen Leader
Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed, a spokesman for Russian forces said Tuesday.
Col. Ilya Shabalkin said Maskhadov was killed during a "sp... | Comment |
Kuchma Returns To Kiev
Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma joined mourners today at the funeral of former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko, who died under mysterious circumstan... | Current Affairs |
Princely Residence For The President
Polish art deco swept the board at Paris's International Exhibition of 1925, yet its treasures are today little known in the West. However, thanks to a 26 mill... | Art and Culture |
Polish PM To Force Early Elections
Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka has threatened to resign in May to force early elections, Polish Television reported Friday.
Belka is locked in a fierce ba... | Current Affairs |
Polish Premier On Choppy Waters
This morning Parliament is to vote over a motion submitted by the Polish Families League (LPR) which calls on Prime Minister Marek Belka to resign.
At aroun... | Current Affairs |
Historic Reading Of The Talmud
Some 1,000 Jews from around the world gathered Wednesday in Lublin to mark the completion of a ceremonial reading of the Talmud, a tradition started in the east... | Current Affairs |
Pole Charged In Cocaine Scam
A German man and a Polish woman have been charged with attempting to smuggle 11 kilograms of cocaine into Russia. The pair had apparently dissolved the drug int... | Current Affairs |
Barbers In Bikinis A 'Health Risk'
Barbers in bikinis pose a "health risk", according to officials in the northern Polish city of Slupsk.
The city's numerous bikini-wearing female barbers have... | Comment |
Knife in the Head Is A Real Headache
A 63-year-old Pole suffering headaches and lack of appetite was reportedly completely unaware that a 12-cm-long knife-blade stuck in his head was the source of ... | Comment |
Corspe Factory Raises Eyebrows
Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-p... | Current Affairs |
Tiozzo Trounces The Tiger
Fabrice Tiozzo retained his WBA light heavyweight title Saturday, stopping Poland's Darius Michalczewski in the sixth round.
Tiozzo ran his record to 47-2 w... | Comment |
Kaczmarek Comments On Oscar Win
Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek said Monday he was a "relaxed and happy man" after his music for "Finding Neverland" won him the Oscar for best original scor... | Art and Culture |
'Democratic Party' Casts The Dice
The new centre party that was launched this weekend will be called the Democratic Party (Partia Demokratyczna).
Its founders, who came up with the idea two ... | Current Affairs |
Polish Composer Wins Oscar
Polish composer Jan Kaczmarek walked away with the Oscar for Best Original Score at yesterday's blockbusting awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
The prize went ... | Art and Culture |
Let's Cooperate Chirac Tells Poland
Paris and Warsaw must move on from splits over the war in Iraq and learn to work together in the expanded European Union, focusing on their common interests, Fr... | Current Affairs |
Majority Of Poles Back EU
Almost two-thirds of Poles -- 64 percent -- support ratifying the European Union constitution, according to a poll published on Saturday.
According to the s... | Current Affairs |
Gangster Pleads Not Guilty In Boxer Case
A reputed Russian gangster brought to New York from Poland pleaded innocent Friday to charges that he participated in the kidnapping and murder of a promising B... | Current Affairs |
Teen Charged With Artist's Murder
Warsaw authorities charged a 19-year-old man Friday with the murder of surrealist painter Zdzislaw Beksinski.
The suspect, identified only as Robert K., is ... | Current Affairs |
Counting On Congress
Whether Bush's promises to Poland are kept depends on the US Congress.
The Bush administration has made a habit of praising Poland recently, culminating in g... | Current Affairs |
Prayers For The Pope
In big cities and quiet villages, Roman Catholics around the world stopped Thursday to pray for Pope John Paul II as word spread that he had again been rushed t... | Current Affairs |
New Political Party Emerges
The new, as yet to be named, center party is to announce its list of supporters and program this Sunday.
Freedom Union (UW) leader Wladyslaw Frasyniuk is se... | Current Affairs |
Polish Doctors Head Overseas
According to the medics' association, over 7,000 doctors have already left, or are planning to leave Poland.
The list includes anesthesiologist, surgeons an... | Current Affairs |
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