The ‘Kommersant’ newspaper has reported that the Russians want to remove memorial plaques commemorating the Katyn massacre in Tver. According to the newspaper, the memorial plaques, which record the murders of the Polish prisoners of war and other victims of Stalinist terror, are currently hanging in the basement of the Tver Medical University, and may now disappear from public view. A letter in this case was to be sent by the local prosecutor's office to the rector of the university. The prosecutor's office in Tver admonished the rector of the school, emphasizing that in September 1991 permission was granted to hang the memorial plaques, but on the wall of the building on Soviet Street. Prosecutors demanded that the mistake be rectified while at the same time saying that no documents had been found to confirm that Polish prisoners had been shot there.

Yesterday, for the sixth time this year, the soldiers of the Podlasie Territorial Defence Brigade repeated the words of the military oath. In the 11th November Square in the city of Goniądz, 60 soldiers took an oath to the 1st Podlasie Territorial Defense Brigade. This was the final oath taking by volunteers this year.

The British media has been full of reports about Lukasz, the heroic Pole who during Friday’s terrorist attack in London tackled the bomber with a narwhal tusk which he had taken from the wall of the nearby Fishmongers’ Hall. His actions have been widely praised by the British, who noted that this is not the first time has Poland helped them.

The history of Poland takes in over 1000 years and presenting it in a competent way requires not only a deep knowledge of the subject but also courage. Professor Andrzej Nowak of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow took up the challenge and for the last 5 years has been writing a monumental series. The first three volumes tell the story of the beginning of the country, the early medieval time, feudal partition, and the successful attempt to reunite the country in the 14th century.The most recent volume discusses the golden age of the 15th and 16th centuries, with Poland as a local powerhouse and cultural and economic magnet. The complete series is expected to contain at least 10 volumes.

A group of students, employees, and graduates of the National Film School in Łódź has appealed to the university’s authorities to reverse their decision to cancel the meeting with Roman Polański – a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor.

According to a survey conducted by Social Changes for the wpolityce.pl website, if the Polish parliamentary elections were held yesterday, the Law and Justice party would win 40% of the votes.

As the Polish political scene gets ready for the presidential elections next year, much speculation has gathered around the political intentions of Szymon Hołownia, who until recently was the host of the “I’ve got talent” show at TVN – the television station most closely associated with the opposition. Many conservative commentators believe that Hołownia will be a puppet candidate for the opposition, which wants to steal votes from the current head of state, Andrzej Duda, and boost the Civic Platform’s candidate, Małgorzata Kidawa Błońska, in the second round of the elections.

Yesterday's top story in Poland is about “who is Łukasz” and how to use a narwhal tusk. It transpires that one of the three bystanders who fought a terrorist on London Bridge is a Polish national named Łukasz. Seeing the danger he took the narwhal tusk from a wall in the Fishmongers’ Hall and used is as a pike to fight the terrorist, who was later shot dead by police.

On Thursday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, visited Afghanistan on the occasion of Thanksgiving. The purpose of the visit was to pay a visit to the American soldiers stationed in the country.

A man wielding a knife killed one and injured several people on the London Bridge in central London. According to the police, the deadly attack may have a terrorist undertone.