Poles Complain About Auschwitz Video
Dutch prosecutors will launch an investigation into a spoof video portraying the Auschwitz Nazi death camp as a techno party to decide whether to take action ag...

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This Just In: Polish Radio in Belarus!
Belarussian information minister thinks that the idea to install in Poland a radio station broadcasting for Belarus is an idea of Polish trouble stirring politi...

Current Affairs

Second Polish Diplomat Attacked
A Polish diplomat was beaten up in Moscow today. According to the Russian ITAR TASR agency the victim is the second secretary of the embassy. The man was assaul...

Current Affairs

Politician Heads For Clink
The maverick farmers’ Self-Defense party leader Andrzej Lepper has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and suspended for 5 years for slandering five politicians...

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Solidarity Concert To Draw Thousands
Tickets for Jean Michel Jarre’s concert, marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity, the communist bloc’s first free trade union, have almost sold out. The ...

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Hackers Hit Krakow
Hackers have gained control of a major outdoor screen in Krakow. Instead of advertisements, scenes from a private apartment are relayed on the screen. During th...

City Focus

Krakow Boots To Victory
Having played three games already for the Polish championship, Wisla Krakow showed themselves to be more prepared than Panathinaikos and beat them 3-1 in the fi...

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Polish Parlimentarians Denied Passage
The Belarussian border guards denied entry to four Polish members of the European Parliament among them to EP vice President Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. According to ...

Current Affairs

Museum Bags Double Delight
The National Museum in Cracow has hit the jackpot this week with the acquisition of two portraits by the king of Polish 20th Century art, 'Witkacy' (Stanislaw I...

Art and Culture

Plaque For Poet
A year ago this month, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz was laid to rest in the Crypt of Honour at Cracow's Church on the Rock. To mark the anniverary of the depar...

City Focus

Solidarity In The Big Apple
A special exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity will be placed in Union Square – one of the busiest squares in NYC. It will b...

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Polish Diplomat Assaulted
An official at the Polish Embassy in Moscow was injured in an attack near the building. Interfax News Agency reports that Andrzej Uriadko was being treated i...

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Pole Wins Bronze
Polish hammer thrower Szymon Ziolkowski has won bronze at the World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki. With a throw of 79.35 m, Ziolkowski, Olympic champio...

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Dudek On Sidelines
Liverpool's Champions League final hero Jerzy Dudek has been ruled out for three months after dislocating his right elbow in training. The accident happened ...

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Belarus Blocks Poles
Belarus yesterday denied a delegation from the European Parliament permission to enter the country. Polish diplomat Bogdan Adam Klich, chairman of the Europe...

Current Affairs

Glorious Speedway Victory for Poland
Poland were crowned World Speedway Champions after storming to a home victory in Wroclaw. The Poles won with 62 points ahead of Sweden who were second on 34 a...

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Suspects Released in Mugging Case
Warsaw police detained two persons who might have been involved in Sunday's attack on Russian diplomats' children, but they were released Tuesday afternoon when...

Current Affairs

The Best for your Buses
By the end of 2006, over 300 polish bus drivers will be behind the wheel in Britain. To staff its expansion into England, the Scottish bus company Stagecoach, ...

Business

Wicker Working Wonders
In southern Poland, a small rural town is building on historic tradition to fuel their economy in the 21st century. But what exactly are they building and what...

Business

Double Your Vote!
The upcoming elections aren't offering poles more of the same. Or are they? Identical twin brothers, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are running for the Presiden...

Current Affairs

Putin Condems anti-Russian Violence
Recently, 15 Polish Youths shouting anti-Russian slogans attacked and beat upon three Russian teens in a Warsaw park. The three Youths were the children of Rus...

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Poland Tops Investment List
According to Ernst & Young's (E&Y) European Attractiveness Survey, Poland holds the fourth place in the world and the first in Europe with respect to attractive...

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World Record For Polish Girl
Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak broke her own world record to win the women’s 200 metres butterfly final at the World Championhips in Montreal. She overtook Aus...

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British Historian Honoured
British historian Professor Norman Davies is to be honoured today by the Union of the Warsaw Insurgents of 1944. Davies' recent book 'Rising 44' about the Polis...

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Sphinx Cursed By Fire
The source of yesterday's fire on the Main Market Square has been pin-pointed to the Sphinx restaurant, which occupies the ground floor of the so-called 'Prince...

City Focus

Belarusian Force Storms Polish Union
Belarussian special forces stormed a building used by ethnic Poles in a pre-dawn raid on Thursday near the border with Poland, a witness said. It is the la...

Current Affairs

Sybarite's Spotlight: Someplace Else
As we move into the last swing of the season, Cracovians will be savouring every last beam of sunshine, as the polar bear season is not so far off. But for trav...

City Focus

A John Paul II Holiday?
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to support a measure that will establish a national day to honour the late Pope John Paul II. The lower house, or S...

Current Affairs

Herbert Hoover And Poland
The Jagiellonian University has been hosting some great little exhibitions recently and history buffs should not miss the current show in their newly opened ce...

Art and Culture

Fire Strikes On The Rynek
Disaster struck this afternoon when a fire blazed through a historic palace on Cracow's Main Market Square. The so-called 'Prince's House', which lies at th...

City Focus

Poland Out of the Oil Loop???
Germany's BASF and the Russian firm Gazprom are in the advanced stages of planning an oil pipeline that would connect the two nations by way of the Baltic Sea. ...

Current Affairs

New In Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta, traditionally the city’s least celebrated area, will be a hive of activity from the 26th of August to the 4th of September. Celebrations marking the ...

City Focus

Unemployment Down .3 Percent
Unemployment in Poland has dropped to 18 per cent from 18.3 in May. Still, according to the figures released by the General Statistical office, 2 million 800 th...

Business

US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal
The United States has accepted Poland's plans to pull most of its 1,700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski ...

Current Affairs

Revelations From Polanski Temptress
The model at the centre of Roman Polanski's successful libel suit against Vanity Fair says the filmmaker never tried to seduce her. Polanski on Friday won h...

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Poles In The Running For UEFA 2012
UEFA have received five bids to host the European soccer championship in 2012, European soccer's governing body announced in a statement on Friday. They comp...

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Belarusian Press Slams Poland
The pro-government Belarusian media blames Poland and the Union of Poles in Belarus for the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Warsaw and Minsk. The biggest gov...

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Bid For Polish Mobile Stake
Britain's Vodafone and Denmark's TDC have made an offer for a controlling stake in Polish mobile phone operator Polkomtel, an advisor to Poland's treasury minis...

Business

Polanski Wins Libel Case
Roman Polanski won his libel case against Vanity Fair on Friday, ending a week-long trial in which he gave video evidence from Paris to avoid extradition to Ame...

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Belarusian Problem Spirals
Polish authorities have suggested they could toss a Belarusian diplomat out of the country and hinted at visa troubles for Belarusians in the latest installment...

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Jury Retires In Polanski Case
The judge in Roman Polanski's libel case against Vanity Fair magazine told jurors Thursday they should not focus on the filmmaker's lifestyle as they deliberate...

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Sport Star Passes Away
Andrzej Grubba, Poland’s most successful table tennis player of all time, has died at the age of 47 after an unsuccessful struggle against cancer. His top s...

Current Affairs

Happy Bastille Day!
The great liberation of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 was in fact more of a symbolic than a numerical victory. Only seven miserable souls happened to be holed ...

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Schindler Factory Shall Open
It wouldn't be too much to suggest that a film director generally famed for making movies about sharks, aliens and dinosaurs has done more to raise awareness fo...

City Focus

60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.
Convened to define the future of defeated Germany and the postwar order in Europe, the conference in fact marked the beginning of the Cold War. It established t...

History

A Price To Pay
Polish and American defence ministers met in Washington this week to discuss the details of US military aid. The promised 100 million US dollars will be use...

Current Affairs

Farrow Fights For Polanski
Roman Polanski was so consumed with grief after his wife's brutal murder he was unable to think or talk about anything else, actress Mia Farrow said Tuesday, de...

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New Steel Plants For Poland
Mittal Steel Poland, the country's steel giant, agreed yesterday to build a hot rolling plant in Krakow and a new continuous caster in Dabrowa Gornicza, the new...

Business

Polish Mushroom Hit
"Poland has gained a reputation for producing exceptional quality, low-cost mushrooms,'' says John Smith, Chairman of major UK supplier, Northern Mushrooms. ...

Business

Polanski In The Dock
Roman Polanski's personal life was put under the spotlight on Monday at the start of a libel trial in which the director testified via video link from Paris to ...

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