Poland will sue Russia in a human rights court over Moscow’s withholding of the wreckage of a Polish jet that crashed in thick fog over Russia in 2010 killing the Polish president, the country’s foreign minister-designate said. Russia has so […]
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Engineers are set to start surveying a railway embankment in south-westernPoland to establish how to dig out a “gold train” that is thought to have been buried there in the dying days of the Third Reich. The existence of a […]
Poland’s defence minister has asked the security services to investigate how hundreds, or even thousands, of soldiers and civilian employees of the army received harassing telephone calls from Russia. The number of people who got mysterious calls from Russia has […]
Commenting on the victory of the right-nationalist Law and Justice Party at last week’s parliamentary elections, liberal Polish journalist Ziemowit Szczerek warned that while it will be a step backward for Poland, the party’s victory actually constitutes a diplomatic victory […]
Poland’s Law and Justice, a rightwing eurosceptic party, is likely to oust the ruling pro-EU Civic Platform in parliamentary elections scheduled this Sunday, further evidence that anti-liberal, anti-EU and anti-immigrant movements are gaining momentum in Europe. Like Hungary’s prime minister, […]
“‘Putinism with a Polish face!” “Cultural revolution à la Polonaise!” “Orbanisation on the Vistula!” (Orbanisation refers of course to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s model of illiberal democracy.) I listen to my Polish friends’ Cassandra cries after voters handed victory […]
Poland tosses out the centrist party that had governed for eight years for a socially conservative and Right-wing party that wants to keep migrants out and spend more on Poland’s own poor. Poland’s eurosceptic opposition is on course to triumph […]
aroslaw Kaczynski, the populist Polish leader who has suffered years of political setbacks and personal tragedy, made a dramatic comeback when his conservative Law and Justice party won a decisive victory in a parliamentary election. Kaczynski, dressed…
South Korean pianist Cho Seong-Jin won Poland’s prestigious Chopin competition on Tuesday, a prize that opens the doors to some of the world’s top concert halls. Cho, 21, beat 77 other young pianists from 20 countries to take home the […]
IN 2014 Evan Alberhasky travelled to Poland from Jerusalem to learn about his Jewish ancestral roots. In the taxi to the city of Krakow, he was greeted by graffiti declaring Anty Jude (“Anti Jews”). He saw crossed-out Jewish stars and […]