News & Views Directory 22
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March.21.2005 | |
This month sees the 60th anniversary of Tygodnik Powszechny (The Universal Weekly), one of the few beacons of intellectual freedom during the communist era. ... | |
March.18.2005 | |
Cracow may have once been a Royal capital, but she's had her fair share of downs with her ups. In 1989, on the eve of democracy, half of the city was falling ap... | |
March.18.2005 | |
A large poster depicting Pope John Paul II is on display in downtown Warsaw, giving the city a taste of the contemporary art that will be on display in a planne... | |
March.18.2005 | |
The snow has finally melted on the Planty, revealing that wonder of nature that we'd all forgotten - grass. That wasn't the only thing that was revealed though.... | |
March.18.2005 | |
Awareness among Britons of the Auschwitz concentration camp has soared, a survey shows, thanks in part to a royal scandal involving Prince Harry wearing Nazi re... | |
March.17.2005 | |
Although protests by conservationists had marked the run-up to the unveiling of the new Galeria Kazimierz shopping mall, yesterday's opening ultimately passed w... | |
March.15.2005 | |
The latest book by Polish-born Pope John Paul hit bookstores in his native land on Monday, amid great interest from fellow Poles. The pope's fifth book, Mem... | |
March.14.2005 | |
About two hundred people gathered yesterday in Podgorze for the 62nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto. A small concert was held in front o... | |
March.14.2005 | |
Russia denied on Friday that the 1940 execution of 15,000 Polish prisoners of war by Soviet secret police was genocide, dismaying Poland's chief war crimes inve... | |
March.14.2005 | |
More than 300 people gathered Thursday in front of Chinese Embassy in Warsaw tto commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising against Chin... | |
March.10.2005 | |
Polish authorities said on Wednesday they had arrested an aide to a prominent parliamentarian, accusing him of spying for a "big neighbour" – a clear reference ... | |
March.10.2005 | |
Poland on Wednesday condemned the killing of Chechen guerrilla chief Aslan Maskhadov by Russian forces as a "crime" and said it was a mistake because he was the... | |
March.10.2005 | |
U.S. firms expect the 10 new members of the European Union to invest, rather than traditional countries such as Germany, the EU Observer reported. In a repor... | |
March.10.2005 | |
According to the latest forecasts, in 2005 the Polish economy will grow much slower than anticipated a few months ago with GDP growing by 3.5%-4.8%. Accordi... | |
March.10.2005 | |
Sybarite's Spotlight: Club Poselski A great new bar has just opened up in Cracow's Old Town, offering a refreshing antidote to the thumping house and beer mo... | |
March.10.2005 | |
This Sunday at 12 midday there will be a Remembrance March to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto. The meeting point will be o... | |
March. 9.2005 | |
On this day in 1652 the Polish Seym felt the first shudders of anarchy that would be created by the infamous liberum veto law. This specified that a single nobl... | |
March.9.2005 | |
If you feel like throwing yourself into some fantastic folkish frolics, you could do little better than heading for Lipnica Murowana this Palm Sunday (March 20t... | |
March.9.2005 | |
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski was criticized Tuesday for failing to appear before a parliamentary commission investigating privatization fraud. Kwa... | |
March.8.2005 | |
Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed, a spokesman for Russian forces said Tuesday. Col. Ilya Shabalkin said Maskhadov was killed during a "sp... | |
March.8. 2005 | |
Polish art deco swept the board at Paris's International Exhibition of 1925, yet its treasures are today little known in the West. However, thanks to a 26 mill... | |
March.7. 2005 | |
Plans were unveiled in the newspapers today for a 7 million zloty restoration of the Villa Deciusz Park. The nine hectare expanse, whose jewel in the crown is ... | |
Feb.7.2005 | |
This Saturday Poles attended a Mass, sang patriotic songs and lay flowers on a monument to more than 21,000 military officers and intellectuals massacred by Sov... | |
March.4.2005 | |
Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka has threatened to resign in May to force early elections, Polish Television reported Friday. Belka is locked in a fierce ba... | |
March.03.2005 | |
This morning Parliament is to vote over a motion submitted by the Polish Families League (LPR) which calls on Prime Minister Marek Belka to resign. At aroun... | |
March.3.2005 | |
Some 1,000 Jews from around the world gathered Wednesday in Lublin to mark the completion of a ceremonial reading of the Talmud, a tradition started in the east... | |
March.3.2005 | |
On this day in 1941, the occupying Nazi regime opened a ghetto for Cracow's Jews. 41, 000 Jews had already been resettled in other cities, and now those that re... | |
March.1.2005 | |
Barbers in bikinis pose a "health risk", according to officials in the northern Polish city of Slupsk. The city's numerous bikini-wearing female barbers have... | |
March.2.2005 | |
A controversial German artist who gained notoriety for displaying body parts and corpses has said his father was pulling out of one of his son's projects follow... | |
March.1.2005 | |
A 63-year-old Pole suffering headaches and lack of appetite was reportedly completely unaware that a 12-cm-long knife-blade stuck in his head was the source of ... | |
March.01. 2005 | |
Prize-winning artist Cezary Bodzianowski plummeted out of the snowy skies yesterday, landing on the pagan burial mound of Prince Krak, legendary founder of the ... | |
March.1.2005 | |
Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-p... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek said Monday he was a "relaxed and happy man" after his music for "Finding Neverland" won him the Oscar for best original scor... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
Short of a last-minute miracle, it seems that Cracow's oldest and finest sausage makers, Krakowskie Zaklady Miesne ( The Cracow Meat Company) are about to finis... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who bakes the finest Szarlotka of them all?" It's a serious question, and one that you've no doubt asked yourselves many times on a... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
If you were thinking of heading down to Kazimierz this week, the newly opened Galicia Museum has two excellent exhibitions up its sleeve. The first, 'Traces of ... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
Polish composer Jan Kaczmarek walked away with the Oscar for Best Original Score at yesterday's blockbusting awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The prize went ... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
Paris and Warsaw must move on from splits over the war in Iraq and learn to work together in the expanded European Union, focusing on their common interests, Fr... | |
Feb.28.2005 | |
Almost two-thirds of Poles -- 64 percent -- support ratifying the European Union constitution, according to a poll published on Saturday. According to the s... | |
Fe.25.20005 | |
Lovers of classical music have a treat in store this weekend as we're fast approaching the 35th anniversary of Cracow's finest orchestra, Capella Cracoviensis.... | |
Feb.25.2005 | |
Pope John Paul spent a restful night in hospital after throat surgery and is now breathing unassisted, but doctors have advised him not to speak for several day... | |
Feb.25.2005 | |
Whether Bush's promises to Poland are kept depends on the US Congress. The Bush administration has made a habit of praising Poland recently, culminating in g... | |
Feb.25.2005 | |
In big cities and quiet villages, Roman Catholics around the world stopped Thursday to pray for Pope John Paul II as word spread that he had again been rushed t... | |
Feb.25.2005 | |
The new, as yet to be named, center party is to announce its list of supporters and program this Sunday. Freedom Union (UW) leader Wladyslaw Frasyniuk is se... | |
Feb.25.2005 | |
According to the medics' association, over 7,000 doctors have already left, or are planning to leave Poland. The list includes anesthesiologist, surgeons an... | |
Feb.24.2005 | |
Committed hedonists should look no further than the Absurd Club this weekend where the knights of Absurdity will be staging a 48 hour extravaganza to celebrate ... | |
Feb.24.2005 | |
A man in his 20s has been arrested in Warsaw after banks in France and Poland laid a trap for him and foiled a bid to fraudulently transfer EUR 600,000 (USD 800... | |
Feb.24.2005 | |
Poland's jobless rate climbed to 19.5 percent in January, the second straight monthly increase after nearly a year of improvement, government data showed Wednes... | |
Feb.23.2005 | |
Two hundred years ago, a stubborn professor endeavoured to save the last fragment of Cracow's medieval walls from destruction. Professor Radwanski used every ex... | |
Feb.23.2005 | |
A former shipyard worker whose 1980 firing triggered the labor protest that spawned Poland's Solidarity movement was awarded $23,000 on Tuesday for her imprison... | |
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