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Tram For A Tryst
Cracow's noisy family of blue trams was joined by a ravishing red number yesterday for a special Valentine's Day adventure. Cocking a snook at the grimy weather... | City Focus |
Royal Ridicule
In the light of the merry news that Prince Charles is to wed his longtime companion, Camilla Parker-Bowles, it seems a tad unsporting to dredge up Prince Harry'... | Comment |
An Unlikely Hero
An elderly Polish newspaper editor has been making headlines in the West over the last month after he became embroiled in a controversial libel case. Seventy on... | Current Affairs |
Poland Seeks Apology For 1939 Pact
Poland's president said Wednesday he will attend the commemorations of the end of World War II in May in Moscow, but said the notorious 1939 pact between Nazi G... | Current Affairs |
Jubilee Gem
Those Polish composers may be preposterously difficult to pronounce, but don't let that stop you from zipping down to the Philharmonic Hall for this season's ju... | Art and Culture |
A Forgotten Odyssey
Candles were lit yesterday in Warsaw at the monument to the victims of Stalin's deportations to the East. Aging survivors said prayers for loved ones that had p... | History |
Bush To Ask Congress For $100 For Poland
President Bush said Wednesday he will ask Congress for $100 million to help modernize armed forces in Poland, a staunch ally in the war in Iraq.
During an O... | Current Affairs |
Polish Cardinal Caught Out
The Vatican has raised the age of a Polish cardinal to 81 -- making him ineligible to vote in a conclave for a pope - after he acknowledged lying about his age... | Comment |
Stalactites And Totem Poles
If you've just arrived in the city, you may have noticed strange assemblies of branches propped against the walls of many houses. On Spzitalna street for exampl... | Comment |
Cracow's Klezmer Kings
If you've yet to sample the delights of Cracow's Klezmer scene, Cracow Life recommends galloping down to Alchemia without delay. Weave your way through the murk... | Art and Culture |
The Pope's Right Hand Man
He's Pope John Paul II's faithful servant, his confidant, his gatekeeper.
There's probably no one as sensitive about the Pope's image and health problems - ... | Current Affairs |
Brave New Underworld
Ambitious plans were revealed this week for a multi-million zloty investment project in the crumbling cellars beneath Cracow's Market Square. The Likus brothers... | City Focus |
The Cracow Of Yesterday
With temperatures pushing -15 it's a comforting thought that Cracow has as many cafes as it does icicles. If you feel like banishing the cold with a steaming cu... | Art and Culture |
Intelligence Chief Tries To Calm Storm
The head of Polish military intelligence dismissed concerns that the leaking of a list of communist-era secret police files had damaged the nation's security.
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Echoes Of Yalta's Failure Today
Sixty years ago this week, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin gathered in Ukraine to map out the postwar world. For many, the blows are stil... | Current Affairs |
America Thanks Poland
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday thanked the government of Poland, an important ally in Iraq, for its continued support in the war despite public... | Current Affairs |
Autumn Elections For Poland
The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) National Council decided on Monday that the general election should take place in the fall, in accordance with the constituti... | Current Affairs |
Cold War Files Thrust Into Cyberspace
Poles have flooded websites to view a list of names taken from communist-era files made public for the first time since the fall of Communism, searching for men... | Current Affairs |
Cracow Philharmonic Jubilee
Sixty years ago this week, Cracow's newly formed Philharmonic Orchestra held its first concert. Barely two weeks had past since the city had been liberated from... | Art and Culture |
Prayers For The Pope
Worshippers in the southern Polish town of Wadowice, the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, were praying Wednesday for his recovery after the pontiff was rushed t... | Current Affairs |
Investment Boom
According to a report published yesterday by Merril Lynch, no other member country has gained more than Poland from EU accession.
After a very positive firs... | Business |
Fat Thursday
When the clock strikes midnight on February 2nd we will enter the glorious doughnut extravaganza that is 'Tlusty Czwartek' - Fat Thursday in the Anglo-Saxon ton... | City Focus |
Pope's Health Scare
Pope John Paul spent a peaceful night in hospital after receiving urgent medical treatment for breathing difficulties, a Vatican source said on Wednesday.
Th... | Current Affairs |
UEFA Reveals Polish-Ukrainian Bid
UEFA finally revealed the bids yesterday for the European Football Cup of 2012. As rumours had suggested, Poland was amongst the hopeful entrants, this time in ... | Current Affairs |
Elvis Statue For Cracow
Warsaw already has its Winnie the Pooh Street and John Lennon Avenue, and a few months ago it was declared that the Central Square in Nowa Huta - the communist ... | Comment |
A Light In The Darkness
A half-mile of railroad tracks blazed in the wintry dusk, marking what had been the final journey for many into the Nazi death camp. A train whistle split the s... | Current Affairs |
Forgotten Auschwitz Victims Seek Equality
Three generations after the Holocaust, Europe must widen its fight against ethnic-based violence to protect the Roma people, who like the Jews were mass-murdere... | Current Affairs |
Police Clash With Anti-Putin Protesters
Polish have police clashed with about 50 people protesting against Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of his visit to Krakow for Holocaust commemorations.
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Returning To Auschwitz
World leaders and survivors have stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust at a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th anniversary of the l... | Current Affairs |
Cracow Security Stretched For Anniversary
Cracow's Royal pedigree may be indelible, but it's no thrusting metropolis these days. Four hundred years have passed since Cracow's capital status was transfer... | Comment |
Sharon Responds To Auschwitz Anniversary
In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world "didn't lift a finger" to sto... | Current Affairs |
World Leaders Arrive In Poland
World leaders began converging on southern Poland Wednesday for two days of emotional ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest N... | Current Affairs |
The Strange Case Of The Missing Durers
Poland is putting new pressure on America's Cleveland Museum of Art and other major museums to return a widely dispersed collection of Albrecht Durer drawings l... | Art and Culture |
Poland To Open Borders
European Union newcomer Poland is to enter the bloc's unified Schengen border regime on 28 October 2007, ending controls on the western frontier with Germany an... | Current Affairs |
Cheney Hails Yushchenko
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is an "ally of freedom's cause," Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday in toasting the new leader, who leans toward th... | Current Affairs |
A Voice From The Past
If life was hell in Auschwitz during Spring and Summer, then what must the experience have been like in Winter? World leaders attending the sixtieth anniversary... | Art and Culture |
Publisher Guilty Of Libelling Pope
A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him $6,500.
The ruling against Jerzy Ur... | Current Affairs |
Cradle of A Legend Restored
In the Spring of 997, an earnest Bishop from Bohemia said a mass at a small church on Cracow's Market Square. His name was Adalbert, and this was to be his las... | Art and Culture |
Walesa Ponders Comeback
Former Polish president and Solidarity hero Lech Walesa said Monday he was considering another attempt at a political comeback by running for president later th... | Current Affairs |
Traces Of A Lost World
With delegations from over sixty countries expected, and all of Cracow's hotels booked solid as a result, it is unlikely that travellers will have much luck in ... | City Focus |
Kiev: Out With The Old
Cameramen can never resist a nice shot of the loser. Whether it's a clash at the lawcourts, a politician who has been given the sack, or an Olympic athelete who... | Comment |
Radio Free Europe Remembers Hero
Jan Nowak, the legendary fighter for the Polish resistance during World War II who went on to head the Polish service of Radio Free Europe for a quarter of a ce... | History |
Jobless Rate Cause For Concern
Poland's jobless rate climbed to 19.1 percent in December, rising for the first time in 10 months, according to government figures released Monday.
The unem... | Current Affairs |
Curtain Call For Fin-de-Siecle Theatre
Renovation is due to finish this week in one of Cracow's most glorious buildings, the turn of the century Slowacki Theatre.
The theatre, which is a miniature... | Art and Culture |
Walesa Attends Kiev Inauguration
Viktor Yushchenko became Ukraine's president Sunday and vowed to steer the nation toward the West, capping a popular revolt and a bitter months-long fight over ... | Current Affairs |
'Courier From Warsaw' Dies
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's gover... | History |
Liberating Auschwitz
Sixty years on, memories of the horror they stumbled upon are still painfully vivid for the former Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's most ... | History |
Achilles' Thirst
Poles heartily confess that they're fond of the odd beer or ten - it's very much part of the culture. And if we stray into politically incorrect territory, one ... | Comment |
Composer Sends Budgies To Sleep
On a freezing Sunday in Jaslo, Poland, three pet budgies, named Cziko, Czako and Dako, fell asleep in broad daylight to the strains of John Levine’s alphamusic.... | Comment |
Pope's Wartime Dilemma
As a priest, Karol Wojtyla refused to baptize a Jewish child who had been entrusted to a Catholic family in Nazi-occupied Poland, out of respect for the youngst... | History |
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