News & Views Directory 9
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March.29.2006 | |
Poland’s former ambassador to Belarus, Mariusz Maszkiewicz, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison for taking part in an illegal rally in Minsk last week. Jour... | |
March.29.2006 | |
Otylia Jedrzejczak, Polish Olympic gold-medal swimmer is back in the swimming pool. Eight months after a car crash in which her brother was killed, she has take... | |
March.27.2006 | |
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Stanislaw Lem, the outstanding Polish writer who died in Krakow this Monday afternoon. Mr. Lem, ... | |
March.24.2006 | |
Catholics across Poland are preparing to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II with public processions, liturgical celebrations an... | |
March.24.2006 | |
The prominent Polish composer Wojciech Kilar has received an honorary citizenship of the city of Katowice in Silesia. Born in Lviv, now in Ukraine, Kilar has be... | |
March.22.2006 | |
New art galleries are as commonplace here as new sausage shops, but the arrival of Turlej has added a fantastic new feather to Cracow's cultural cap. If you hav... | |
March.20.2006 | |
Poland's ruling conservatives said on Saturday they would file a motion to dissolve parliament, their most serious threat yet to bring forward elections they ho... | |
March.17.2006 | |
Revelers are preparing to paint the town green as St. Patrick's Day is with us once again. Cracow and Dublin might seem a long way apart, but that won't stop Po... | |
March.17.2006 | |
Former Polish and Czech presidents, Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel have called on the international community to support the opposition candidate in Sunday’s pres... | |
March.17.2006 | |
Observances of the 64th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lublin Jewish ghetto have been held in that eastern Polish city. On the night of March 16th, 1... | |
March.17.2006 | |
Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a man for killing a rival soccer fan after a match in southern Poland. A man identified only as Piotr B. faces ... | |
Dec.14.2002 | |
Relations between the governments of Poland and Lithuania have come a long, long way since the painful stand-off of the 1920s and 30s, a time when both nations ... | |
March.13.2005 | |
Poles are generally in favour of early elections, state the results of a survey commissioned by Polish Radio. A poll carried out by PENTOR Research Internat... | |
March.10.2006 | |
One of Cracow's most poignant annual events takes place this Sunday in the bedraggled district of Podgorze. The low-key 'March of Remembrance' recalls the liqui... | |
March.10.2006 | |
A large group of gay protesters have forced their way into the hall at Berlin’s Humboldt University and disrupted a lecture by Polish president Lech Kaczynski c... | |
March.10.2006 | |
The legendary 'oscypek' highland cheese has joined the ranks of such venerable gastronomic specialties as champagne, parma ham and stilton cheese, after winning... | |
March.10.2006 | |
Andrzej Wajda, the grand old man of Polish cinema, turned eighty this week, fresh from winning the award for lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival. ... | |
March.10.2006 | |
The Spanish government announced Thursday it will lift immigration restrictions for workers from the EU's new Eastern European member states in an effort to cou... | |
March.10.2006 | |
The Catholic Church in Poland has apologized for the harm caused by those priests who collaborated with the communist secret police. A statement issued by P... | |
March.10.2006 | |
One of Poland's most beautiful synagogues has received a substantial grant from the European Union. The Sephardi Synagogue in the south eastern town of Zamos... | |
March.9.2006 | |
Katowice's glorious 'Spodek' building is alone enough to warrant a day-trip to that city. The gargantuan 70s edifice, which looks like a U.F.O that's landed in ... | |
March.9.2006 | |
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said in Warsaw today that Polish troops will leave Iraq in 2007 or even late this year. According to a Polish radio report, K... | |
March.9.2006 | |
A former Polish diplomat Piotr Dzieduszycki has been detained in connection with an attempt to smuggle 75 kilos of brown heroin from Poland to Germany. The ... | |
March.8.2006 | |
A third wild swan in Poland has tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, a lab announced today. The swan was found dead Saturday in Torun, about 120 ... | |
March.8.2006 | |
Cracow has topped Prague in popularity. For the first time ever, more tourists visited Cracow than Prague in 2005. Some 8 million tourists came to Cracow and 3.... | |
March.6.2006 | |
Poland and Hungary are quarrelling over the definition of vodka. For the Poles vodka is “an alcoholic beverage derived from cereals or potatoes.” Historically v... | |
March.6.2006 | |
Andrzej Wajda – one of Poland’s most outstanding and renowned directors – is celebrating his 80th birthday today. Wajda is the proud owner of an Oscar statue... | |
March.6.2006 | |
Press secretary for the Polish Episcopate, father Jozef Kloch has stated that the Church is strongly against working Sundays for the personnel of shops, service... | |
March.6.2006 | |
Russia’s military prosecutors have refused to recognize Polish officers murdered in Katyn forest by Stalin’s NKVD police as victims of Stalinist repressions. ... | |
March.6.2006 | |
‘John Paul the Second’, the American-Italian-Polish film co-production directed by John Kent Harrison is having its Polish premiere tonight in Krakow and Wadowi... | |
March.3.2006 | |
An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt'' that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, the fi... | |
March.3.2006 | |
Book between Monday, March 6, and Sunday, March 12. Centralwings, the budget offshoot of LOT Polish Airways, has flights to Poland from £1 one-way excluding tax... | |
March.3.2006 | |
Switzerland will grant Poland 489 million Swiss Francs in aid for new EU members, Swiss economy minister Joseph Deissem said on Thursday in Warsaw after talks w... | |
March.2.2006 | |
Music and mountain lovers have a treat in store this weekend with the 30th anniversary of the Karol Szymanowski Museum in Zakopane. After Chopin, Szymanowsk... | |
March.2.2006 | |
The city has announced that the final wave of renovation of the Planty Gardens is to begin this month. The leafy border to the Old Town is one of Cracow's best-... | |
March.1.2006 | |
A team of Roman Catholic Church historians and experts has been pulled together to check the files of communist-era secret police for evidence of collaboration ... | |
Feb.28.2006 | |
After a contentious run up Love Organisation finally arrived in Krakow with a bang on Saturday at the nightclub formerly known as Rdza. The party’s promotional ... | |
Feb.28.2006 | |
A resident of Woliborz in south-western Poland has celebrated his 116th birthday. Pawel Parniak has 11 grandchildren, 32 great grand-children and 22 great-great... | |
Feb.28.2006 | |
A coal miner who was trapped underground for almost five days has been brought to the surface. He is now in a hospital, dehydrated after 111 hours without food ... | |
Feb.28.2006 | |
40 dentists from Poland are to be recruited to work in the NHS in Scotland this year. Deputy Health Minister Lewis MacDonald has been welcoming the first sta... | |
Feb.27.2006 | |
Film buffs have the chance to meet one of Europe's most feted film directors on Tuesday when Andrzej Wajda attends the screening of Przekladaniec (Roly Poly) at... | |
Feb.23.2006 | |
Two Polish film fanatics have jumped into the record books (or rather sat into the record books) after seeing out a colossal 115 hour session in their local cin... | |
Feb.27.2006 | |
Poland’s Tomasz Sikora has won the silver medal at the Winter Games in Turin. He put up an almost flawless performance in the 15-kilometre mass-start biathlon e... | |
Feb. 27.2006 | |
We've been wanting to have go at film reviews for a while now but never quite got round to it. But perhaps unluckily for you, one of our crack squad of film man... | |
Feb.24.2006 | |
Archbishop of Krakow Stanislaw Dziwisz has been named cardinal by Pope Benedict. While the appointment is seen as a victory for the Church’s more open wing in P... | |
Dec.14.2002 | |
A maid whose clients included Robert DeNiro and Candice Bergen was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison by a judge who said the defendant was "clea... | |
Feb.24.2006 | |
A university in Poland has banned an exhibition of T-shirts bearing slogans such as "I didn't cry when the Pope died" and "I've got Aids", saying the show was t... | |
Feb.24.2006 | |
Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen is visiting Poland to invite bishops to establish links which could lead to Polish priests coming to work in his far-flung Scotti... | |
Feb.24.2006 | |
Britain's The Guardian and Polish daily Rzeczpospolita have been voted the world's best-designed newspapers. Five judges from the Society for News Design rev... | |
Feb.24.2006 | |
Prosecutors said yesterday they have filed charges against three managers of a company that owned an exhibition hall whose roof collapsed last month, killing 65... | |
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