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Jędrzej Wijas: Polish election candidate’s heavy metal campaign

('Aleksandra Sygiel',) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:48:30 -0000

The PhD graduate from the Polish academy of sciences, 34, is running as a candidate of the left-wing party SLD (democratic left alliance) in the Polish parliamentary elections on 9 October. In a music video ‘A Concrete Message’, he gnarls out his political goals to a backdrop of heavy metal types. Interview

Poland October election campaign: vote for Kaczynski’s ‘Angelina Jolie’

('Annie Rutherford',) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:38:49 -0000

Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski was seen as a no-hoper for the upcoming parliamentary elections on 9 October. Yet an unexpected comeback in opinion polls could be down to the conservative law and justice party’s new election campaign, in which seven attractive young women – one standing for Lodz, in particular - give the party a facelift

World's tallest jesus and crossing out secularism in Poland

('Ems_8674',) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:30:00 -0000

Every country has its own vision of secularism.In late November, a 51-metre Jesus Christ statue was erected in western Poland, 14 metres taller than its colleague in Rio de Janeiro. Though privately funded, the Polish state is still looking for that perfect balance between sacrum and profanum in the public domain - takes its various crossings with the cross

Jacek Borcuch, Poland’s 2011 Oscar candidate: 'America doesn’t impress me'

('Peter Robbins',) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:00:17 -0000

'All That I Love' by the 40-year-old Polish director is one of 65 films competing for an oscar in the 2011 'best foreign language film' category. It is a nostalgic childhood tale about growing up with a punk rock band in a Poland under martial law

L.U.C: 'Poland is not just vodka and pretty girl exports'

('Hayley Worsley-Carter',) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0000

Rather than rapping on his new album, producer Lukasz Rostkowski, 29, mixes in historical soundtracks, including the voice of ex-Polish president Lech Walesa. The jazz, trip hop and electro musician explains how a sometimes pessimist view of his country's past has inspired him in his musical projects, for which he has just picked up a 2009 'Passport award' from the journalists at Polityka

Vesna Goldsworthy: 'Radovan Karadzic is related to me'

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0000

The Belgrade-born journalist and author of ‘Chernobyl’s Strawberries’, 47, on fighting cancer, the traumas of war, her eccentric grandmother and her war criminal cousin

Europe’s eastern bloc palaces

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:30:00 -0000

Berlin, Bucharest, Vilnius and Warsaw - four examples of what to do with those eastern state building dinosaurs

Easter in Europe: all about the egg

('Francesca Reinhardt',) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Everywhere you look, display windows, promotional offers, Easter markets and cards are covered with bright, beautifully decorated Easter eggs

Katarzyna Kozyra: plastic penises and ribbon vaginas

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0000

The Polish sculptor, video and installation artist, 45, probes the theme of the body as a costume - what it is like to be a ‘real woman’?

Marzena Sowa: 'in communist Poland I'd dream about getting a Barbie from Pewex'

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

At 28, the author of comic series 'Marzi' – about a little girl living in the Polish People’s Republic - on her own story as a Pole between France and Belgium

Jan T. Gross: Poland's 'anti-semitic' attitude

('Sarah Turpin',) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Public opinion in Poland is stirred after the American professor's post-war publication is released

Michal Zygmunt: 'By 2010, Poland will be talking commercial gay movement'

('Olia Yatskewich',) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0000

30-year-old author of the book ‘New Romantic’, the journalist and editor of gay magazine ‘Dik Fagazine’ talks politics, left-wing politics and emotion-drained religion

Elections in Poland: the soap opera continues

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0000

The electoral campaign for the general elections has begun - two years early

Disappearing in the crowd: Vietnamese immigrants in Poland

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:44:00 -0000

Thousands of Vietnamese are repressed in their home country and are forced to leave Asia and try their luck abroad. For those who choose Poland, the transition is sometimes tough

No Europe without the Media

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:02:00 -0000

In a special article for café babel, celebrating the launch of its Polish version, journalist and co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza Jacek akowski writes about the role of media in the development of the European public opinion.

Solidarity: the end of a myth

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:00:00 -0000

While the Polish trade union ‘Solidarity’ celebrates its 25th anniversary, what has become of Lech Walsea and his fellow freedom fighters?

My beloved Poland

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:00:00 -0000

Many Poles have been forced into exile over the centuries, often because of the sufferings endured by their motherland. This has created a veritable diaspora - both multifaceted and influential.