Poland

Foreign Ministry against false terminology

Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is continuing its fight against the misleading term "Polish death camps," found often in the European and American media when discussing the World War II extermination and concentration camps in Poland that were created and operated by Nazi Germany.

Polish culture in London

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Hundreds of thousands of Poles have flocked to Britain since Poland became part of the European Union four years ago.

Long-awaited computer game to be blockbuster hit

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Thousands of people in Poland and around the world have been waiting patiently for four years for the computer role-playing game "The Witcher." Their patience is to be rewarded on October 26, which is set as the release date.

"Hide Your Grandma's ID": Election campaign heats up

Thursday, October 11, 2007

You can always expect the unexpected in an election. Last week thousands of copies of a humorous SMS message flashed across Poland.

MySpace in Poland

Thursday, October 11, 2007

MySpace is looking to expand its website portal to include Polish content, language and features. Rupert Murdoch's media giant News Corp owns and controls MySpace since July 2005.

Lessons with a moral

Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Polish Institute of National Memory wants grammar school students to study the prisons of the former Polish secret police and to emphasize to the pupils: "You don't forgive the Communist secret police!"

Public broadcaster accused of favoring the ruling party

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Robert Glowacki, editor of the information program "Obiektyw" on the Bialystok branch of the Polish public broadcaster TVP, was moved to a different position last week.

EU removes Chechnya exhibition

Thursday, October 11, 2007

An exhibition of photos depicting Russian brutality in the war in Chechnya was removed from the European Parliament building in Brussels only hours after it opened this month.

Gdansk greets Gunter Grass

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass visited Gdansk as part of a special week-long celebration of his 80th birthday that included lectures, readings, a film festival of movies based on Grass' works, a free jazz concert and other events.

Polish scientific discovery receives international acclaim

Thursday, October 11, 2007

A team of researchers, headed by Polish scientist Jaroslaw Stolarski from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, published a breakthrough study October 5 on the effects of climate change on corals in the esteemed international "Science" magazine.