Famed Nazi Hunter Passes Away
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fight...

History

Festival Honours Wajda
Film director Andrzej Wajda has received the Platinum Lions during the Festival of Polish films which has just wound up at the coastal city of Gdynia. The great...

Art and Culture

Exhibition Opening
Galeria SD will showcase the work of two Polish artists: Danuta Krol and Henryk Bakalarczyk-Gida. Henryk Bakalarczyk-Gida is a member of the Union of Sculptu...

Art and Culture

Smugglers Of Space Dust
An unusual attempt at smuggling was uncovered at the Polish-Ukrainian boarder crossing in Dorohusk. The truck driver claimed that he had a load of quartz, yet t...

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15 Year Old Space Ace
Piotr Bednarek, a 15 year old boy from Central Polish city of Czestochowa, has discovered a planetoid. The boy analysed photographs of outer space made by a...

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President Tours America
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has begun a week-long visit to the United States. The Polish president’s itinerary includes delivering lectures at local politi...

Current Affairs

Poland's Leader Concerned About Ukraine
‘Ukraine cannot afford to waste what it gained in the course of the Orange revolution’, said Poland’s president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Speaking at the Euro...

Current Affairs

Polish Days In Austria
The annual Polish Days in Austria have begun in Vienna under honorary patronage of both countries prime ministers. By the end of October nearly 30 events will h...

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Putin-Schroeder Pact!
A good deal of the misery in Poland's past can be traced to its location between Germany and Russia. These days, people talk an awful lot about Globalization an...

Current Affairs

Poland On Ukrainian Crisis
President Aleksander Kwasniewski is convinced that the sacking of the Ukrainian government will not affect relations between Warsaw and Kiev. The developments i...

Current Affairs

Pole Is Oldest European at 118
118 year old Jozef Piotrowski is the oldest Pole and the oldest European. Born in 1887, he is still in fairly good form, though he cannot walk. He has never smo...

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Twins Slip In Struggle For Votes
They were the stars of a popular movie as children but as adult conservative politicians, Poland's identical twins Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski seem eternally co...

Current Affairs

Communist Chief May Yet Be Grilled
The Silesian Office of The National Remembrance Institute is considering charging former communist ruler general Wojciech Jaruzelski with illegal introduction o...

Current Affairs

Polish President Speaks Up!
Plans for a trans-Baltic oil pipeline from russia to Germany have been in the works for quite a while. Since the pipeline would create an pathway that excluded ...

Current Affairs

Chopin Music Festival
Summertime always brings plenty of action to the capital city, and this month is no exception. Alongside the usual weekly concerts and events, you’ll have...

Art and Culture

Poles Missing After Hurricane
22 Poles are still missing after hurricane Katrina struck the US southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama a week ago, the Polish Foreign Ministry h...

Current Affairs

Yushchenko Cancels Visit
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has cancelled his visit to Poland planned for September 7-9, Itar-Tass news agency reports. Yushchenko was to present his ...

Current Affairs

Lepper Courts Chinese Communists
Farmers’ Self Defence has invited a delegation of the Chinese Leaque of Communist Youth for a series of meetings and discussions aimed at establishing a long-te...

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New German Consul Assaulted
Police in Gdansk is continuing its search for the three youths who assaulted the German consul in the city yesterday. Ute Minke-Koenig assumed her post only...

Current Affairs

Zanussi Flies Celluloid Flag
'Persona Non Grata', a feature by the internationally-acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, has been shown at the Venice Film Festival. It is Poland’s of...

Art and Culture

Pope Was Key To Victory
Lech Walesa, the shipyard electrician who helped topple Poland's communist regime by founding the Solidarity movement in 1980, credited the late Pope John Paul ...

History

Poland Sends Condolences To US
Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski sent a letter of condolences to his American counterpart G. W. Bush in which he talked of being “shocked by the enormity...

Current Affairs

World Salutes Solidarity
World leaders paid tribute to Solidarity on Wednesday, saying the labor movement launched 25 years ago in the Gdansk shipyards was a catalyst for some of the mo...

Current Affairs

Walesa Hails Freedom
Poland's Solidarity hero Lech Walesa has told his countrymen that any price, including the pain accompanying economic reforms, was worth paying for the freedom ...

Current Affairs

President Unlikely To Testify
The parliamentary committee investigating the privatisation of Poland’s oil giant Orlen has called on president Aleksander Kwasniewski to testify. The motion to...

Current Affairs

Poland Blanks Belarusian Choice
Poland will not recognise newly elected leaders of a Polish ethnic organisation in Belarus because they were installed after pressure from President Alexander L...

Current Affairs

Black Madonna Dazzles Anew
Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics gathered at Poland's holiest shrine Friday to pray as the revered Black Madonna of Czestochowa icon was given a new coverin...

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Lodz Ghetto Remembered
Events commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz began in that central Polish city today. A mass in the intention of th...

Current Affairs

Solidarity Celebrations Set To Start
The main events marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity – the first free trade union in a communist bloc – will be held this week in Warsaw and Gdansk, the u...

Current Affairs

Activists Detained in Poland
Belarussian police detained two ethnic Polish activists on Friday before a meeting intended to entrench rival leaders at the helm of a Polish association who wo...

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Coca Cola Calls Time
Beverage producer Coca-Cola will pull its sodas out of Polish elementary schools and replace them with bottled water and fruit juices due to growing public conc...

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Greek Bank Branches Into Poland
Greece's third biggest bank, EFG Eurobank Ergasias, plans to enter Poland and open as many as 200 branches, the Greek press reports. Polish Eurobank, control...

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Communist Leader Apologizes To Czechs
Former Polish President General Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sunday apologised for the first time for ordering Polish troops to take part in the Moscow-led crackdown ...

Current Affairs

Polish Ace In Tragic Accident
General Jacek Bartoszcze, the chief of Poland's air force, died in the crash of a two-seater plane on Saturday, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "An inqu...

Current Affairs

Early unveiling for Depeche Mode!
The recording industry, that mom and pop enterprise with a heart of gold, has just made a big arrest in Poland. Somewhere in between exploiting the sex appeal ...

Business

Ukraine and Poland Jack Up Bid
Ukraine and Poland agreed on Thursday to press on with a joint bid to stage the 2012 European championship and pledged high-level support in the two east Europe...

Comment

Depeche Fan A Wanted Man
Police in Poland have arrested a Polish individual alleged to have accessed a secure pre-release video copy of the new Depeche Mode single Precious and made it ...

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Poland Sells Copters To New Iraq
Poland has agreed to overhaul 24 aging Soviet military helicopters sold to Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported Thursday. Polish defense ministry officials sa...

Current Affairs

In Defense of Polish Migrants
After having been the target of political manipulation and fear mongering for as long as they have existed, Polish Migrant workers are finally getting some help...

Current Affairs

Presidents Convene In Crimea
President Aleksander Kwasniewski arrived in the Crimean peninsula where he is expected to meet the presidents of Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania. The meeting ...

Current Affairs

Polish To Be Top Gun
Prime Minister Marek Belka believes that Poland's participation in air space patrols over the Baltic states attests to the fact that the Polish air force achiev...

Current Affairs

Poles Boot To Victory
Substitute Grzegorz Rasiak scored twice Wednesday to lead Poland to a 3-2 win over Israel to win the Valery Lobanovsky exhibition tournament. Poland, which b...

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Amber Heist At Border
An attempted customs deception of half a million euros has been prevented by Polish officers on the Polish-Russian checkpoint at Gronowo. A Russian citizen t...

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Berlin Centre Ruffles Feathers
German opposition leader and chancellor candidate Angela Merkel met with Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski Tuesday where she discussed topics of bilateral ...

Current Affairs

Poland Reach Soccer Final
Poland and Israel have reached the final of the four-team Valery Lobanovsky tournament after Poland beat Serbia 3-2 on Monday and Israel beat hosts Ukraine on p...

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All Creatures Great And Small
Horses, cows, dogs, rabbits and even honey bees have been blessed in the small town of Mikstat, western Poland, today in accordance with a 300 year old traditio...

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Polish Ultimate Champs
At the recent "Poznan Unleashed" Ultimate tournament, held in Poznan, Poland, two Polish ultimate frisbee teams faced one another in a tournament-style match. ...

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Poland Calls For Russian Calm
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski urged an improvement in relations with Russia on Monday and called on Poles to avoid "senseless stereotypes". Relatio...

Current Affairs

Banned Priest Grabs Limelight
A Polish priest who was once banned from preaching for anti-Semitic remarks lashed out on Sunday at laws made by "Jewish bankers", during celebrations of the 25...

Current Affairs

Walesa Voices Desire for a New Belarus!
Solidarity's iconic figure-head, Lech Walesa, has recently made public his desire for a democratized Belarus. Specifically, Walesa mentioned that a 'revolution...

Current Affairs