News & Views Directory 15

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Smigus Dingus

March.25.2005

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...

Russians Respond To Roundabout Rap

March.24.2005

In riposte to the Warsaw city authorities announcement that they will name a roundabout after fallen Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, Moscow has announced plans...

Finalists chosen for the Jewish Museum project

Mar.23.2005

Never before has such a large group of highly talented architects made an effort to design a building which is to stand in Poland. The names of the applicant...

Polish Journalists Released

March.23.2005

Belarusian authorities have released three Polish journalists who were briefly detained for lacking proper media credentials. One of the reporters, Marcin Sm...

Alleged Drug Ring Broken

March.23.2005

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...

Warsaw Spring

March.22.2005

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 ...

Roundabout Rumpus

March.22.2005

Russia on Monday accused the Warsaw city council of supporting international terrorism by naming a roundabout after a Chechen rebel leader. "It is difficul...

Nuclear Poland

Mar.21.2005

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...

Protest to save popular Warsaw club

Mar.21.2005

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...

A Royal Treat

March.21.2005

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 ...

Kacznyski Touts New Warsaw Museum

March.18.2005

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...

Poland Unveils Poster Of Pope

March.18.2005

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...

Pope Publishes New Memoir

March.15.2005

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...

Russia Says Katyn Executions Not Genocide

March.14.2005

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...

Poles Turn Out For Tibetans

March.14.2005

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...

Poland Arrests 'Spy'

March.10.2005

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 ...

Poland Denounces Chechen Killing

March.10.2005

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...

US Looks East

March.10.2005

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...

EU Report Predicts Ebb

March.10.2005

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...

Kwasniewski Dodges The Heat

March.9.2005

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski was criticized Tuesday for failing to appear before a parliamentary commission investigating privatization fraud. Kwa...

Russians Finish Chechen Leader

March.8.2005

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...

Kuchma Returns To Kiev

March.8.2005

Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma joined mourners today at the funeral of former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko, who died under mysterious circumstan...

Princely Residence For The President

March.8. 2005

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...

Polish PM To Force Early Elections

March.4.2005

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...

Polish Premier On Choppy Waters

March.03.2005

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...

Historic Reading Of The Talmud

March.3.2005

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...

Pole Charged In Cocaine Scam

March.2.2005

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...

Barbers In Bikinis A 'Health Risk'

March.1.2005

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...

Father of 'body parts' artist faces Nazi claims

March.2.2005

A controversial German artist who gained notoriety for displaying body parts and corpses has said his father was pulling out of one of his son's projects follow...

Knife in the Head Is A Real Headache

March.1.2005

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 ...

Corspe Factory Raises Eyebrows

March.1.2005

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...

Tiozzo Trounces The Tiger

Feb.28.2005

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...

Kaczmarek Comments On Oscar Win

Feb.28.2005

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...

'Democratic Party' Casts The Dice

Feb.28.2005

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 ...

Polish Composer Wins Oscar

Feb.28.2005

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 ...

Let's Cooperate Chirac Tells Poland

Feb.28.2005

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...

Majority Of Poles Back EU

Feb.28.2005

Almost two-thirds of Poles -- 64 percent -- support ratifying the European Union constitution, according to a poll published on Saturday. According to the s...

Gangster Pleads Not Guilty In Boxer Case

Feb.28.2005

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...

Teen Charged With Artist's Murder

Fe.28.2005

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 ...

Counting On Congress

Feb.25.2005

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...

Prayers For The Pope

Feb.25.2005

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...

New Political Party Emerges

Feb.25.2005

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...

Polish Doctors Head Overseas

Feb.25.2005

According to the medics' association, over 7,000 doctors have already left, or are planning to leave Poland. The list includes anesthesiologist, surgeons an...

Fraudster Caught In The Capital

Feb.24.2005

A man in his 20s has been arrested in Warsaw after banks in France and Poland laid a trap for him and foiled a bid to fraudulently transfer EUR 600,000 (USD 800...

Court Compensates Solidarity Icon

Feb.23.2005

A former shipyard worker whose 1980 firing triggered the labor protest that spawned Poland's Solidarity movement was awarded $23,000 on Tuesday for her imprison...

'Mein Kampf' Furore

Feb.23.2005

A German state that holds the rights to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" said Tuesday it was seeking legal action to prevent the book from being published in Po...

Polish Artist Found Dead

Feb.23.2005

Polish contemporary artist Zdzislaw Beksinski, famed for his haunting fantasy paintings, has been found murdered at his home, police said Tuesday. Police sa...

Chopin's 195th Birthday!

Feb.18.2005

The 195th anniversary of Chopin’s birth is fast approaching! The F. Chopin Society will celebrate it in Sanniki on February 20th with a concert by pianist Wojci...

Pope Recalls Assassination Attempt

Feb.18.2005

In his new book, Pope John Paul II for the first time described publicly the moments after he was gravely wounded in 1981, saying he was fearful and in pain but...

Ryanair Eyes Polish Airports

Feb.18.2005

No-frills airline Ryanair believes that flights to and from Poland will be profitable, "If we manage to have 75% booking, then we will break even on flights to ...

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