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Warsaw Squirrels Go Nuts!
Well perhaps it's a bit early to classify Lazienki Park's red squirrels alongside the Wolves of Willoughby Chase or the Beast of Bodmin Moor, but one things for... | Comment |
BBC in Warsaw
The BBC Coventry & Warwickshire will be broadcasting from Warsaw this week, reporting on Tuesday and Wednesday about the American company which has lead the red... | City Focus |
Warsaw Ghetto Diary Restored
After more than 50 years, the charred remains of a diary found in the Warsaw ghetto have been made readable again thanks to the work of scientists at the US Hol... | History |
Improving Relations with Russia
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has just met his Russian counterpart, Victor Zubkhov, in Moscow. Over the past two years, tensions have been high between Wars... | Current Affairs |
Missile Shield? What Missile Shield?
While a few months ago the debate over the planned U.S. missile shield in Poland was big news, it seems that with the change in government, the former hot topic... | Current Affairs |
New Year's Eve in Warsaw
If you're in Warsaw for New Year's Eve, don't miss the action going on at the gigantic Defilad Square, with the Palace of Culture as the backdrop. An enormous s... | City Focus |
Stop! Schengen Time!
Tonight at midnight Poland will go through one of its most dramatic transformations since joining the European Union: it will enter the Schengen zone. As the cl... | Current Affairs |
Tusk in Brussels
On his first official trip to the EU capital as prime minister, Donald Tusk is visiting Brussels to begin the process of patching up the torn relations the Kacz... | Current Affairs |
Chopin's Back in Warsaw
...Or at least one of his most famous manuscripts is! The Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw has just acquired the original score of “Faintaisie-Impromptu” by Fre... | Art and Culture |
Ding Dong, the Twin is Gone
While handing in a resignation as prime minister is certainly not a joyous occasion, it must be especially painful to hand that resignation in to your twin brot... | Current Affairs |
What It Means for Poland
The official results of Sunday's election are in, and Donald Tusk's opposition party Civic Platform (PO) is celebrating a landslide victory. The liberal pro-bus... | Current Affairs |
A New POland
A high turnout (for Poland) was just one of the main differences between this year's election, which took place this Sunday the 21st of October, and the one in ... | Comment |
Cluster-debate to the Polish White House
A series of debates have escalated in the pre-election frenzy leading up to Sunday's early elections. Earlier, Civic Platform (PO) leader Donald Tusk entered a ... | Current Affairs |
Politicians Courting Poles Abroad
As the early elections near, Polish politicians have begun an intensive campaign of persuading the estimated one million Poles in the UK and 200,000 Poles in Ir... | Current Affairs |
The Zookeeper's Wife
Acclaimed American naturalist and historian Diane Ackerman has turned her attentions to Warsaw in a new book published this Autumn. The Zookeeper's Wife, a true... | History |
Poland Rally Against Portugal
Poland put a major dent in Portugal's qualifying chances for Euro 2008 when they scored a late goal courtesy of Jacek Krzynowek, to draw the game 2-2.
Altho... | Comment |
Mark Your Calendars
The date to watch is now September 7th, when the Polish Parliament is slated to vote on whether to dissolve itself or not. If the politicians decided that disso... | Current Affairs |
Dropping Like Flies
It seems even government jobs aren't safe in Poland anymore - at least not when you're working for the prime minister. A series of sackings that began in July h... | Current Affairs |
Another Minister Bites the Dust
It seems that Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is on a roll when it comes to sacking members of his cabinet. The first victim (though rightly so) was ra... | Current Affairs |
Stones Will Play and Donate Proceeds
The famous British rockers The Rolling Stones were set to play the Sluzewiec Race Track on the evening of July 25th when tragedy struck in France - a bus carryi... | Art and Culture |
....Or Not
It seems we were a bit too optimistic in predicting a change in Polish government. While some feel such a change would be helpful to the Polish people, it looks... | Current Affairs |
Lepper Sacked, Elections Eminent
It looks like Andrzej Lepper might be off to his farm sooner than expected. The deputy prime minister has just been sacked by the prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczy... | Current Affairs |
Poles Battle Over EU Treaty
Even though an agreement was reached at last week's EU summit, the dispute over voting rights continues. Though the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski man... | Current Affairs |
Jewish Museum to Open in Warsaw
Today ground was broken on the building of another museum in Warsaw, this time dedicated to the centuries of Jewish heritage in Poland. A ceremony took place at... | City Focus |
Wajda Receives Polish-American Award
Yesterday the legendary director of Polish cinema and Oscar winner, Andrzej Wajda, 81, was honoured by the U.S. ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe with the first ... | Art and Culture |
EU Votes Worth Fighting For?
In another case of Warsaw vs. the EU (though surprisingly Prague is the only EU state on Poland's side this time), Polish President Lech Kaczynski is threatenin... | Current Affairs |
Russia, Stay Out of My Missile Shield!
Talks about a proposed missile shield being placed on Polish and Czech territory have now been going on since last week, but today Poland has upped the ante as ... | Current Affairs |
Love is in the (Ryan)Air...
While Ryanair has some faults - restrictive luggage regulations, the cattle herd-like feel of boarding their planes, the overpriced snacks - it's still hailed a... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Life PDF Now Available!
Have you been thinking lately, "Gee, Warsaw Life's guide sure is helpful, but I wish I could take it with me on my trip to Warsaw!"? Well fear not, we have the ... | Comment |
Holocaust Denier Kicked out of Book Fair
The International Warsaw Book Fair took place this weekend, but sadly not without incident. A fair promoting learning, the exchange of ideas, and combating igno... | Art and Culture |
Russia, Poland, the EU ...and Meat
Russia and Poland are at odds over an issue - but then again, so what else is new? Perhaps what's new is this time the conflict is over meat, and not the contro... | Current Affairs |
EU Urges Poland Towards Tolerance
It's a sad state of affairs when a country with a history of being oppressed as deep as Poland's fails to live up to its obligation of respecting fundamental hu... | Comment |
Warsaw Celebrates Euro 2012
Seemingly against all the odds, Poland and Ukraine's joint bid for Euro 2012 triumphed ahead of other more fancied candidates such as Italy and the other joint ... | Current Affairs |
Abortion Debates on Warsaw's Streets
Last week, a debate about abortion which started in the lower house of the Polish parliament in Warsaw spilled onto Warsaw's streets. While pro-life and pro-cho... | Current Affairs |
Savior of Jewish Children Honoured
The Polish parliament recognized a national hero this month when it honored 97 year old Irena Sendlerowa. The former social worker rescued over 2,500 Jewish chi... | History |
The King of Burgers Invades Poland!
No, it's not war - it's fast food! The American burger chain, the main rival of McDonald's, which has become a staple of many Poles' late night diets (and many ... | Business |
Warsaw's Controversial Museum-to-be
The plans for the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej (Contemporary Art Museum) to be built in Warsaw have barely been revealed, and already the museum is one of the most... | City Focus |
An American Missile in Poland?
Those who thought Poland's contribution to the Iraq war was too much brown-nosing to America on Poland's part are in for another disappointment. This time, howe... | Current Affairs |
Golden Terraces open in Warsaw
When Arkadia opened in Warsaw's Zoliboz neighborhood, we all thought this was it - the mother of all shopping centres, and nothing could top it. Well, we humbly... | City Focus |
The Year of Joseph Conrad has Begun!
Festivities at Warsaw's Royal Castle started off the "Year of Joseph Conrad" in Poland, led by honorary master of ceremonies President Lech Kaczynski. The Polis... | Art and Culture |
Fall of Warsaw Archbishop
'It's difficult to fall from a pedestal slowly' remarked the late poet Stanislaw Lec. The case of former Archbishop of Warsaw Stanislaw Wielgus presents a glari... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Bishop On The Brink
A storm of controversy is swirling around the induction of incoming Archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus. For the past ten days, Polish newspapers have been ... | Current Affairs |
Polanski Wins In Warsaw
"For some strange reason, only good things happen to me in this city," remarked Roman Polanski as he accepted a lifetime-achievement award this week in Warsaw.
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First Woman President of Warsaw Elected
In a blow both to the right wing Law and Order party, and to misogynists everywhere, the first female President (Mayor) of Warsaw has been elected from the Citi... | Current Affairs |
Scandal Rocks Ruling Coalition
Poland's ruling coalition was struggling to maintain composure on Monday after allegations were published that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper had operated... | Current Affairs |
Municipal elections
This past Sunday, the thirteenth of November, a little over 40% of Poland's eligible voters (a sizable percentage by Polish standards) turned out at the polls t... | Current Affairs |
Orco to List on Warsaw Stock Exchange
Luxembourg based real estate developer Orco Property Group has announced plans to list on the Warsaw and Budapest stock exchanges in the first half of next year... | Business |
Police Search For Farting Dissident
Everyone does it, some get a good laugh from it whilst others will shy away from the topic all together. Its hard to look at this story and avoid a bit of a chu... | Comment |
New Warsaw-Based Daily is Announced
Polskapresse, publisher of nine regional dailies, announced today its plan to launch Poland's biggest daily newspaper to be based in Warsaw next year.
Accord... | Comment |
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