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Poland Sells Copters To New Iraq

Aug.19.2005

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

In Defense of Polish Migrants

Aug.14.2002

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...

Presidents Convene In Crimea

Aug.19.2005

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

Poles Boot To Victory

Aug.19.2005

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...

Amber Heist At Border

Aug.17.2005

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...

Berlin Centre Ruffles Feathers

Aug.17.2005

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

Poland Reach Soccer Final

Aug.17.2005

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...

All Creatures Great And Small

Aug.17.2005

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...

Polish Ultimate Champs

Aug.15.2005

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

Poland Calls For Russian Calm

Aug.16.2005

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

Banned Priest Grabs Limelight

Aug.16.2005

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...

Walesa Voices Desire for a New Belarus!

Aug.14.2005

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

The Great Pierogi Festival!

Aug.12.2005

Well, last year it changed its location three times before finally setting up shop on the Main Market Square, so there may well be some last minute changes. At ...

Poles Complain About Auschwitz Video

Aug.12.2005

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...

This Just In: Polish Radio in Belarus!

Aug.10.2005

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...

Second Polish Diplomat Attacked

Aug.10.2005

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...

Politician Heads For Clink

Aug.10.2005

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...

Solidarity Concert To Draw Thousands

Aug.10.2005

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 ...

Hackers Hit Krakow

Aug.10.2005

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...

Krakow Boots To Victory

Aug.10.2005

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...

Polish Parlimentarians Denied Passage

Aug.08.2005

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 ...

Museum Bags Double Delight

Aug.9.2005

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...

Plaque For Poet

Aug.9.2005

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...

Solidarity In The Big Apple

Aug.9.2005

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...

Polish Diplomat Assaulted

Aug.9.2005

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...

Pole Wins Bronze

Aug.9.2005

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...

Dudek On Sidelines

Aug.9.2005

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 ...

Belarus Blocks Poles

Aug.9.2005

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

Glorious Speedway Victory for Poland

Aug.06.2002

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...

Suspects Released in Mugging Case

Aug.04.2002

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...

The Best for your Buses

July.30.2005

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, ...

Wicker Working Wonders

Aug.02.2005

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...

Double Your Vote!

June.16.2005

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...

Putin Condems anti-Russian Violence

Aug.01.2005

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...

Poland Tops Investment List

July.29.2005

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...

World Record For Polish Girl

29.July. 2005

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...

British Historian Honoured

July.29.2005

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...

Sphinx Cursed By Fire

July.28.2005

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...

Belarusian Force Storms Polish Union

July.28.2005

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...

Sybarite's Spotlight: Someplace Else

July.28.2005

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...

A John Paul II Holiday?

July.28.2005

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...

Herbert Hoover And Poland

July.28.2005

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...

Fire Strikes On The Rynek

July.27.2005

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...

Poland Out of the Oil Loop???

July.22.2005

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. ...

New In Nowa Huta

July.23.2005

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 ...

Unemployment Down .3 Percent

July.25.2005

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...

US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal

July.25.2005

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 ...

Revelations From Polanski Temptress

July.25.2005

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...

Poles In The Running For UEFA 2012

Dec.14.2002

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...

Belarusian Press Slams Poland

July.25.2005

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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