Russia is stepping up covert attacks across Europe — rail sabotage, drones, cyber strikes — testing NATO. Polish officials warn “disposable agents” are sowing fear and weaken support for Ukraine.
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Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace
Poland said Wednesday that it and its NATO allies had shot down Russian drones that violated Polish airspace in what it called an “act of aggression” as Russia launched aerial attacks on Ukraine.
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Conservative Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election
The close race had the country on edge since a first round two weeks earlier and through the night into Monday, revealing deep divisions in the country along the eastern flank of NATO and the EU.
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Greetings from Warsaw, Poland, where the flags are flying ahead of a key election
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.
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Poles vote for a new president as security concerns loom large
The vote comes amid rising security fears over the war in neighboring Ukraine and uncertainty about continued U.S. support for Europe’s defense.
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History has never ended, but are we at a crossroads again?
Oxford professor Ben Ansell says we are witnessing a battle between nationalism and liberalism that will write our own time indelibly into the history books of tomorrow.
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In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past
In this almost perfect little film, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who reconnect in Poland to honor the memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
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Poland’s judiciary was a tool of its government. New leaders are trying to undo that
Poland’s far-right Law and Justice party spent eight years stacking the courts with allies, destroying the judiciary’s independence. The new government is finding it’s tough to undo the damage.
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Poland’s new government deprograms its once far-right public media
Under Poland’s Law and Justice party, the country’s public broadcaster was turned into a propaganda tool for the far-right government to use as it wished. That era has come to an end.
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Author interview: A journalist’s search for a relative who escaped the Holocaust unearths a secret some want to forget
Hena Rozenka was 16 when gunmen burst into the farmhouse in Poland where she and her family had been hiding from the Nazis. On this night in 1944, the men carrying long guns murdered them all – except for Hena, who escaped. Journalist Judy Rakowsky, deploys the investigative skills she honed during her years at […]
