“The mission of the state is not to spread faith and salvation,” says the culture minister.
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“Local issues, not ideological quarrels”: an interview with PiS’s candidate for Warsaw mayor
Alicja Ptak
We speak with Tobiasz Bocheński about his vision for the capital.
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