Our two new ambassadors - Mark Brzezinski and Marek Magierowski - met in Washington; ready to work to further strengthen our strong mutual ties, chargé’d affaires of the US Embassy Bix Aliu wrote on Twitter.
70 years ago, on 21 December 1951, Przemysław Gintrowski, the bard of Solidarity, composer and musician, was born in Stargard Szczeciński. In 1979, together with Jacek Kaczmarski and Zbigniew Łapiński, he prepared the poetic programme "Mury" ("Walls"), whose title song became the informal anthem of the Solidarity movement and a symbol of the fight against communism.
For political reasons, the reconstruction of the Castle after the destruction of World War II did not envisage the recreation of the presidential suite...
The international conference organized on April 8, 2022, by the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw will be devoted to the participation of women in the academic life of Polish universities.
Junior Eurovision 2021 has ended! Poland's representative - Sara James anxiously awaited the final results, as did millions of viewers in front of their televisions. Finally, everything became clear - the representative of Poland took second place.
In the name of solidarity, the European Union should support its eastern neighbours and include the issue of their independence and security on its agenda, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the Saturday podcast.
14 works by Marc Chagall have been placed in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, said Piotr Gliński, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, during the presentation of works that will enrich the collection of the National Museum.
Altogether half a thousand Belarusian refugee children staying in Poland received Christmas presents. Christmas packages were prepared by their peers from Germany. On Sunday in Bialystok, gifts were given to Belarusian children living with their parents in the city.
On Monday BIO PLANET, a company distributing certified organic food of the highest quality from Poland and several dozen countries of all continents will debut on the Main Market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The company has been listed on the NewConnect market since 2015.
"He knows that to avoid responsibility for desertion he has to make a deal with the Lukashenko regime or with another country that sympathizes with the Lukashenko regime and is its political ally," this is what the spokesman for the coordinator of the special services says about the deserter of the Polish Army, who crossed into Belarus. As it results from Stanisław Żaryn's statement, Lukashenka's regime got another tool for propaganda, which will be willingly used, because "it has to lie to avoid responsibility".
The Polish Oscar candidate "Żeby nie było śladów" (Leave No Traces) by Jan P. Matuszyński will be released in February 2022 in American cinemas. Its distribution will be handled by Buffalo 8 - informed the Polish Film Institute in a press release.
Jan-Krzysztof Duda won the gold medal of the European Blitz Chess Championships on Friday in Spodek in Katowice. The silver was won by Maciej Klekowski and the bronze by Russian Anton Demchenko.
The victims of December 1970 are eighteen young Poles, the oldest of whom was 34 years old, and six of them are teenage students. Looking at the immensity and cruelty of this crime, we ask ourselves how it could have been allowed to happen. How could the army be allowed to shoot at unprotected citizens, wrote President Andrzej Duda in a letter to the participants of the Friday morning celebrations in Gdynia on the 51st anniversary of December 1970.
Andrzej Duda paid tribute to the heroes of the 1981 strike at the Piast mine. 40 years ago, the miners protesting there spent two weeks underground in opposition to the imposition of martial law. The President also plans to visit the Wujek mine.
The head of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, came to Brussels, where he took part in the Eastern Partnership summit, and then - in the meeting of the European Council. During the first meeting, the future of this initiative will be discussed in the context of readiness for various scenarios of events in the region.
The dynamic development of digital banking is accompanied by an increase in the activity of cybercriminals - the number of reported online security incidents has doubled in recent years. "We are fighting not with amateurs, but with organized groups of professionals, therefore - as the whole sector - we need to constantly invest in innovative security methods," argued Błażej Szczecki, Vice President of Bank Pekao S.A. during the Retail Banking Congress.
On October 23, it was 36 years since the spectacular escape of the Zielinski brothers from Zyrakow to Sweden. In 1985, Adam, then 15, and Krzysztof, then 12, escaped from communist Poland by hiding in a truck on its way to Sweden. This story was adapted for film by Maciej Dejczer in the movie "300 Miles to Heaven".
There was an accident on the A14 motorway in Germany at night from Thursday to Friday that resulted in the driver of a sports Porsche being decapitated. Polish drivers were involved in an attempt to stop the damaged vehicle.
