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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 |
Secret film sparks Polish scandal
An aide to Poland's prime minister has been secretly filmed apparently trying to entice an opposition MP to defect in return for a government post.
The gover... | Current Affairs |
Polish Dragons To Follow Tolkien Saga
A Polish lady born and raised in New York is set to begin a dizzying adventure on the silver screen. Naomi Novik's fantastical literary creations have already g... | Comment |
Miracle On The Vistula
'Had Pilsudski and Weygand failed to arrest the triumphant advance of the Soviet Bolshevik Army at the Battle of Warsaw, not only would Christianity have experi... | History |
Warsaw mayor bins Berlin visit
Poland's acting mayor of Warsaw has cancelled a trip to Berlin, saying he could not visit the city while it was running an exhibition commemorating the expuls... | Current Affairs |
The Rising Remembered
Ceremonies are underway here in remembrance of the Warsaw Uprising, which began today in 1944. The uprising against the Nazi Occupiers was initially intended to... | Current Affairs |
Miss World proving a winner in Warsaw
More than 20,000 new jobs will be created and 240million PLN (£41million) will be added to the country’s coffers when Miss World 2006 takes place in Pola... | Business |
Communist collaborators to come under cosh
The Sejm approved a bill that would remove people who collaborated with the communist secret services (SB) from public life.
The bill, which now needs Senate... | Current Affairs |
Polish head swears in twin as PM
Polish President Lech Kaczynski has sworn in his identical twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime minister.
The move comes a week after Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz resi... | Current Affairs |
Dudek Haul Found
British policemen have charged two adults in relation to the theft of possessions belonging to Polish football star Jerzy Dudek.
After returning from his hol... | Comment |
Wislostrada Festival of Open Art
If you go down to the river today you're in for a big surprize.... For Wislostrada has returned for another weekend of refined mayhem on the banks of the river.... | Art and Culture |
Mountain Magic
If you've already had enough of Poland's performance in the World Cup, or you've simply had enough of football altogether, a fair antidote would be to head over... | Art and Culture |
Poland Prepares For German Showdown
The Poles are facing a swift ejection from the World Cup following last Friday's defeat at the hands (or feet if we're more accurate) of the Ecuadorians. It was... | Comment |
Poles Poised For Football Cup
Some 300,000 Polish fans are gearing up to travel to Germany for the first round of the World Cup, latest estimates show. This number would be some seven times ... | Current Affairs |
Rabbi Abused By Lone Attacker
Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was attacked in an isolated incident last Saturday in Warsaw. Rabbi Schudrich, who was booked to make a speech at Birke... | Current Affairs |
Jerzy Ficowski Laid To Rest
The writer, gypsy scholar and resistance veteran Jerzy Ficowski was laid to rest on Thursday at Warsaw's historic Powazki Cemetery. Ficowski was eighty-two when... | Art and Culture |
Riots Follow Football Match
The relationship between Warsaw, Poland's capital, and Krakow, the former capital, has long been a source of jokes to inhabitants of both cities. However, when ... | Comment |
Guns N' Roses To Play Warsaw!
It's been over twelve years in the making, and notched up over 13 million dollars in production costs, with numerous aborted sessions in numerous studios, but A... | City Focus |
Warsaw Uprising Set For Screen
It was one of the most controversial chapters of the Second World War, an action that divided both the Poles themselves, as well as their European allies. In th... | Art and Culture |
Warsaw boasts Rolling Stones and more
As the summer heat slowly begins to pour over the wintry chill of Poland, a whole host of musical, cultural and sporting events come to the eastern European cou... | Art and Culture |
UK lets in more Poles than live in Warsaw
Two million Poles have arrived in Britain since EU borders were thrown open to eight east European countries in 2004.
The influx - greater than the populatio... | Comment |
The Pope's Visit to Warsaw
Pope Benedict XVI will hold 12 speeches during his journey in Poland. The most anticipated one is the speech he will make in Auschwitz where he will pray for th... | City Focus |
Armenian Solidarity
A silent march is due to take place in Warsaw this Sunday in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
Commemoration of the tragedy is ... | City Focus |
Poles grow fond of American football
Even though Polish athletes do win medals of major international championships every now and then, Poland is no superpower in sport. And while Poles generally p... | Comment |
Rolling Stones To Play Warsaw!
After many years of a not so healthy lifestyle, the very fact that Keith Richards still remains alive is a source of universal wonderment. He's up there with Ig... | City Focus |
Warsaw To Host Miss World
Warsaw has prevailed over four other Polish cities in a fierce competition to host 120 of the planet's most beautiful women for the Miss World 2006 final on Sep... | Comment |
Mafia trial begins in Warsaw
The long awaited trial of 41 members of the notorious organized crime ring, known as the Pruszkow mafia, has begun in Warsaw. Its members, among them four infam... | Current Affairs |
Miss World 2006 final to be held in Warsaw
Warsaw, April 3 (DPA) Warsaw has prevailed over four other Polish cities in a fierce competition to host 120 of the planet's most beautiful women for the Miss W... | City Focus |
Early elections popular
Poles are generally in favour of early elections, state the results of a survey commissioned by Polish Radio.
A poll carried out by PENTOR Research Internat... | Current Affairs |
Vodka War
Poland and Hungary are quarrelling over the definition of vodka. For the Poles vodka is “an alcoholic beverage derived from cereals or potatoes.” Historically v... | Comment |
Director Turns Eighty
Andrzej Wajda – one of Poland’s most outstanding and renowned directors – is celebrating his 80th birthday today.
Wajda is the proud owner of an Oscar statue... | Comment |
Finger Points To Soviets
An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt'' that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, the fi... | Current Affairs |
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