Masha Gessen claims the criticism is based on a misunderstanding.
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Poland and EU condemn arrest of Polish leaders in Belarus as Warsaw threatens sanctions
They are accused of inciting hatred and rehabilitating Nazism.
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Nationalism or patriotism? Poland’s March of Independence
Stanley Bill
A controversial national march returns to the streets of Warsaw.
Tusk warns PiS must be stopped from “destroying” Poland and criticises “naive” EU migration policy
“Everything should be done to prevent PiS from destroying the political order and rule of law for the next four years,” says Tusk.
PM announces reshuffled government for start of second term
After elections, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced the members of his reformed cabinet, as the ruling PiS party prepares for the first sitting of the new parliament on Tuesday.
“LGBT ideology” is like Nazism or Bolshevism and must be resisted, says Polish archbishop
LGBT is “dangerous”, “like Bolshevik or Hitlerite ideologies”, says the Arcbishop of Kraków, who also warns that paedophilia in the church should not be exaggerated.
Repairing the world: The Olympic athlete restoring Poland’s Jewish heritage
Estera Flieger
A town honours its Jewish community that was wiped out in the Holocaust.
Swedish neo-Nazi expelled from Poland
A member of the Nordic Resistance Movement, who had come to Poland for paramilitary training, was expelled as a security threat.
The god of war returns: PiS’s controversial judicial nominations
Piotr Trudnowski
After every election, Jarosław Kaczyński, tired of steering towards the centre ground in campaigns, returns to what he knows best: conflict.
Unique ant colony trapped in abandoned Polish nuclear bunker survived by eating its own dead
Scientists report on a unique colony of ants found in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Poland.
Supreme Court rejects fourth Senate vote recount request from PiS
The two remaining protests, however, could still potentially swing the balance of power in the upper house of parliament.
Poland is experiencing record immigration, but the system is struggling to cope
Marta Jaroszewicz
Poland must improve its system of issuing foreigners with residence and work permits, says the Supreme Audit Office.
Trains, tripe and the secret police: Norman Davies’s first experiences of communist Poland
Norman Davies
The distinguished historian recalls his first visits to Poland as a student in the 1960s in an exclusive extract translated into English from his Polish autobiography.
Tusk announces he will not stand for Polish presidency, saying he has too much “baggage”
Tusk says that, after “deep reflection”, he has decided that he has too much “baggage” to stand in the 2020 presidential election.
