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Fall of Warsaw Archbishop

Jan.8.2006

'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...

Warsaw Bishop On The Brink

Jan.5.2007

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 ...

Polanski Wins In Warsaw

Dec.5.2006

"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. ...

First Woman President of Warsaw Elected

Dec.14.2002

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...

Scandal Rocks Ruling Coalition

Dec.5.2006

Poland's ruling coalition was struggling to maintain composure on Monday after allegations were published that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper had operated...

Municipal elections

Nov.13.2006

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...

Orco to List on Warsaw Stock Exchange

Oct.31.2006

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...

Police Search For Farting Dissident

Oct.02.2006

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...

New Warsaw-Based Daily is Announced

Oct.23.2006

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...

Secret film sparks Polish scandal

Sept.29.2006

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...

Polish Dragons To Follow Tolkien Saga

Sept.12.2006

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...

Miracle On The Vistula

Aug.15.2006

'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...

Warsaw mayor bins Berlin visit

Aug.11.2006

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...

The Rising Remembered

May.1.2006

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...

Miss World proving a winner in Warsaw

Jul.18.2006

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...

Communist collaborators to come under cosh

Jul.24.2006

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...

Polish head swears in twin as PM

Jul.17.2006

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has sworn in his identical twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime minister. The move comes a week after Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz resi...

Dudek Haul Found

June.26.2006

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...

Wislostrada Festival of Open Art

June.23.2006

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....

Mountain Magic

June.14.2006

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...

Poland Prepares For German Showdown

June.12.2006

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...

Poles Poised For Football Cup

June.7.2006

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 ...

Rabbi Abused By Lone Attacker

May.31.2006

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...

Jerzy Ficowski Laid To Rest

May.19.2006

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...

Riots Follow Football Match

May.15.2006

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 ...

Guns N' Roses To Play Warsaw!

May.11.2006

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...

Warsaw Uprising Set For Screen

May.4.2006

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...

Warsaw boasts Rolling Stones and more

May.04.2006

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...

UK lets in more Poles than live in Warsaw

Apr.27.2006

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...

The Pope's Visit to Warsaw

April.26.2006

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...

Armenian Solidarity

April.21.2006

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 ...

Poles grow fond of American football

Apr.19.2006

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...

Rolling Stones To Play Warsaw!

April.19.2006

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...

Liberals protest against closure of Le Madame

Apr.10.2006

WARSAW – Yesterday evening’s demonstration against the enforced closure of Le Madame club building, which also housed the Polish Green Party, was declared “a b...

Warsaw To Host Miss World

April.7.2006

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...

Warsaw ghetto leader accuses Polish radio of anti-Semitism

Apr.06.2006

The last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising said Tuesday he would seek the help of the Polish government to silence Roman Catholic fundamentalist Ra...

Mafia trial begins in Warsaw

Apr.05.2006

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...

Miss World 2006 final to be held in Warsaw

Apr.04.2006

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...

Early elections popular

March.13.2005

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...

Vodka War

March.6.2006

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...

Director Turns Eighty

March.6.2006

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...

Finger Points To Soviets

March.3.2006

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...

Flight Deals With CentralWings

March.3.2006

Book between Monday, March 6, and Sunday, March 12. Centralwings, the budget offshoot of LOT Polish Airways, has flights to Poland from £1 one-way excluding tax...

Swiss Fork Out For Poland

March.3.2006

Switzerland will grant Poland 489 million Swiss Francs in aid for new EU members, Swiss economy minister Joseph Deissem said on Thursday in Warsaw after talks w...

Probe Goes Ahead

March.1.2006

A team of Roman Catholic Church historians and experts has been pulled together to check the files of communist-era secret police for evidence of collaboration ...

Is Garlic The Answer?

Feb.28.2006

A resident of Woliborz in south-western Poland has celebrated his 116th birthday. Pawel Parniak has 11 grandchildren, 32 great grand-children and 22 great-great...

Miraculous Rescue Of Miner

Feb.28.2006

A coal miner who was trapped underground for almost five days has been brought to the surface. He is now in a hospital, dehydrated after 111 hours without food ...

Celluloid Sensation

Feb.23.2006

Two Polish film fanatics have jumped into the record books (or rather sat into the record books) after seeing out a colossal 115 hour session in their local cin...

Silver For Poland

Feb.27.2006

Poland’s Tomasz Sikora has won the silver medal at the Winter Games in Turin. He put up an almost flawless performance in the 15-kilometre mass-start biathlon e...

Pope's Aide Becomes Cardinal

Feb.24.2006

Archbishop of Krakow Stanislaw Dziwisz has been named cardinal by Pope Benedict. While the appointment is seen as a victory for the Church’s more open wing in P...

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