On Sunday (19 Sep), the 14th Katyn Shadow March, a tribute to over 20,000 Polish citizens murdered by the Soviets in 1940, began at the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw.
On September 23, at the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, the second edition of the Our Future Forum conference will be held, organized by Our Future Foundation - a foundation associating students of leading Polish and foreign universities. Representatives of Polish business, public institutions, as well as high school students and students will meet to discuss how to fight the exclusion and inequalities of young people's access to education.
How does global warming affect Siberian waters? What pollutants could be released from the melting permafrost? These questions are being investigated by specialists from scientific centers in Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz.
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, as the only company from Poland, has found itself among the companies with the best investor relations in this year's international survey by Institutional Investor, a leading global publisher in the area of finance.
The InSilesia - Investment SFR Competition received as many as 100 entries. The competition for startups is a joint initiative of the Silesian Development Fund and the famous Silicon Valley (Dolina Krzemowa) accelerator Plug and Play. The final of the competition will be held on October 7 at the Silesian Stadium - on the second day of the European Future Forum. As much as PLN 150 thousand is waiting in the prize pool.
Poland will play with Serbia for the bronze at the volleyball championships in Europe. Most fans and experts predicted before the semifinals that these teams would fight for the gold medals, but in sports, not everything can be predicted.
Since March 2016, Stołowe Mountain National Park has been using a new logotype. It presents a stylized sandstone rock formation and an outline of Szczeliniec Wielki - the highest peak of the Stołowe Mountains.
Hitler and Stalin knew that the European order would not be broken without the liquidation of the Polish state. It was the Polish state that fought for freedom, for European and Christian civilization, said Deputy Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sports Jarosław Sellin in an interview with the Niezalezna .pl website.
Celebrations related to the official opening of the Siberian Memorial Museum - a nationwide cultural institution presenting, among others, the issue of deporting Poles to the East. The first visitors can see the exhibition from Saturday.
Two matches for the final will take place today in Katowice in Spodek. At 5:30 PM Poland will face Slovenia and at 8:30 PM Italy will fight against Serbia.
On Saturday (today) in Warsaw a two-day international conference "GenFree: Three Seas Generation Freedom" starts. It is devoted to the development prospects of the Three Seas Region in the coming decades. The event will be attended by prominent scientists, politicians, diplomats, business representatives, and renowned journalists representing almost all countries associated with the Three Seas Initiative.
Forced deportations of Polish citizens to Russia is one of the most tragic pages in our history, wrote Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in a letter to the participants of the opening ceremony of the Siberian Memorial Museum. "It is a drama that we still remember and which remains an unhealed wound for us to this day," he added.
“The Soviet machine of lying propaganda for decades presented the aggression of September 17, 1939, from a convenient point of view. These days also, despite numerous publications and in the face of obvious facts, the authorities of the Russian Federation are trying pushily to portray this armed aggression as an +act of liberation+. It was an act of enslavement and terror, marked by hundreds of thousands of victims among Polish citizens of many faiths and nationalities. It is worth remembering,” wrote the President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Dr. Kamil Nawrocki, in the article on the eve of the anniversary of the Soviet attack on Poland.
82 years ago, on September 17, 1939, in violation of the Polish-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Red Army entered the territory of the Republic of Poland, implementing the arrangements contained in the secret protocol of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. A consequence of the alliance of the two totalitarian regimes was the partition of lonely Poland.
Natalia Kałucka, competing in the time trial, won the gold medal and Aleksandra Mirosław the bronze medal at the world championships in sport climbing in Moscow. The silver was won by the representative of the hosts Julia Kaplina.
