Following World War II, some 200,000 people objected to Soviet oppression and approximately 20,000 of them joined armed units. Communists fought them ruthlessly, and captured fighters were tortured, killed, and often denied a proper burial. The Polish state continues to search for the remnants of several key figures in this movement. To contemporary Poles, these silent heroes are an example of devotion to the country. Remembering them is an honourable duty.

Some 75,000 runners from 370 cities worldwide took part in the Wolf Trail Run. This annual event pays homage to the Cursed Soldiers who, in the 1940s and 1950s, resisted the communist regime after Poland was sold out to the Soviet Union by the Great Powers. Among the runners was Polish president, Andrzej Duda.

In Paris, at the 2020 Cesar Awards, the film “An Officer And A Spy” won three awards. Neither the 85 year old director Roman Polanski, nor his cast and crew, were present at the ceremony. This did not stop a number of actresses from walking out of the ceremony in protest when Polanski’s win was announced. He was convicyed of statutory rape of a minor in 1977. According to observers, by awarding the prize to Roman Polanski the French Film Academy stood up to the pandemic of political correctness by arguing it should not take moral positions in giving awards.

Two nights ago, unknown perpetrators fired pneumatic weapons at the office of MEP Ryszard Czarnecki in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. The Law and Justice deputy claims that he has been the target of a hateful campaign for several weeks now.

William Bradford Wilcox, American sociologist, director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia pointed to the Polish program "Family 500 plus" as a model of legislation that could be implemented in the US.

The heads of diplomacy of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries in Prague supported today the start of negotiations with Albania and Northern Macedonia to include them in the EU. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jacek Czaputowicz said, "we want to maintain the pro-European orientation of these countries".

Greek islanders have been on strike as part of their continuing opposition to new migrant reception centres to be built on a number of Aegean islands. Islanders on Lesbos closed their shops and businesses and staged protests.

Businessman Krzysztof B. admitted during today’s trial at the Szczecin regional court that he had handed a bribe to senator Stanisław Gawłowski. According to the businessman, Gawłowski forced him to finance his election campaign. As the State Prosecutor established, the businessman was to hand Gawłowski, at that time a deputy minister of environment and a prominent politician in the Civic Platform party, a bribe of more than 400,000 zloty.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki asked the Constitutional Tribunal to examine the compatibility with the constitution of the Supreme Court resolution challenging the competence of some judges to adjudicate and verdicts issued with their participation, government spokesman, Piotr Müller announced on Wednesday.

The head of the National Security Bureau, Minister Paweł Soloch yesterday began a three-day visit to Lithuania and Latvia. The main purpose of the meetings is to discuss bilateral Polish-Lithuanian and Polish-Latvian cooperation in the context of the regional presence of the allied United States army and the planned Defender Europe 2020 exercise.

The Ministry of Infrastructure will probably present in June this year two or three variants of the future of the Warsaw Chopin Airport in the context of the construction of the Central Communication Port (CPK) - Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Government Commissioner for CPK, Marcin Horała informed.

Passengers from China and Italy who will come to Poland will have their temperature measured, starting Tuesday - the spokesman of the State Airports company (Państwowe Porty Lotnicze - PPL) Piotr Rudzki said.

Trade unions grouping together Hungarian teachers have announced that they will start strikes or protests next month against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s new national curriculum for primary and high school students. The teachers say, they refuse to learn out the material which they consider too nationalist and conservative.

There are no holds barred in the presidential campaign for Civic Platform party candidate Małgorzata Kidawa Błońska. The incidents in Puck, as well as the recent brutal attacks on the head of the campaign of President Andrzej Duda, Jolanta Turczynowicz-Kieryłło, indicate that fair play no longer applies.

The Polish CD Projekt Red company, famous for its Witcher series, has become the second largest game studio in Europe with total market value of a staggering 8 billion dollars. Just a month ago, the studio was worth 1.2 billion dollars less, but the imminent premiere of its newest production Cyberpunk 2077 is constantly bringing in new revenue, gathering the attention of the entire gaming community. The Polish company, based in Warsaw, earned the admiration of players all around the world with their respectful approach to their fanbase and extraordinary attention to details as well as excellent storytelling in their RPG games. The only company bigger than CD Projekt Red in Europe is the French Ubisoft with total value of stock shares accumulating to 9.6 billion dollars.

The president of the Polish Central Bank Adam Glapiński reported in an article for Rzeczpospolita daily that despite the continuation of the global economic slowdown, the Polish economy remains one of the fastest developing.

An example of how the European Union should develop is the Three Seas Initiative - the head of the cabinet of the Polish President's Office Krzysztof Szczerski said today in Krasiczyn (Podkarpackie) during the "Europe of the Carpathians" conference.

Scout organisations all over the world celebrate World Thinking Day - the appreciation holiday for all girl and boy scouts. In Poland, scouts change their profile pictures to show off their uniforms and stress how proud they are of their service for the society.