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Poznań is best city to live in Poland, says new study

According to Business Insider Polska, the city took top spot based on various factors including remuneration, access to healthcare through the National Health Fund and air quality. PAP/Alamy

According to Business Insider Polska, the city took top spot based on various factors including remuneration, access to healthcare through the National Health Fund and air quality.

Prussian heritage explored at Borussia Foundation

In this edition of the podcast, we are in Poland’s Mazury lake district to visit the Borussia Foundation – and we aren’t talking football…

Homeless man's incredible transformation sends internet wild after kind-hearted barber gives him 'wow-factor' makeover

Viewed nearly 320,000 times since being posted yesterday, the TikTok video begins with homeless Marek sitting in a barber’s chair looking hunched and bedraggled, and ends with him looking positively dashing.

Olsztyn docs save life of Angolan teen after finding massive tumor growing on her jaw

Surgeons carried out the six-hour operation for free after the 15-year-old girl was found by a Polish nurse in Angola who then raised money to fly her to Poland.

Red Army memorials should disappear from public space says minister

The culture minister has demanded the removal of a monument of gratitude to the Red Army in a Polish northern city despite it having been made by a famous Polish sculptor.

That’s a Good Friday! Missing for 30-years, stolen 16th century icon returns home to Olsztyn

Unveiled on Friday, the priceless painting disappeared in 1990 after being stolen in a daring castle robbery. Surfacing in Germany late last year, ‘Trzy Marie I grobu’ has now been returned to its spiritual home.

Seeing red! Across Poland Soviet war memorials are being vandalised and defaced

Where once many would have sought to defend such landmarks as valuable historic relics, it is Russia’s own actions that have seen this resistance significantly diluted, says TFN’s Alex Webber.

Ukrainian refugees refuse to go to Polish region bordering Russia

Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country have refused to go to Poland's north-eastern Warmia and Mazury region owing to its proximity to Russia, local authorities have reported.

Polish museum retrieves stolen 16th century icon

A 16th century icon depicting Archangel Michael was brought back to the Museum of Warmia & Mazury in Olsztyn, north-eastern Poland, more than three decades after being stolen.

‘Life-saving’ Olsztyn firm leading the way in global blockchain technology

The first of its kind project in the world saw Olsztyn-based firm SmartKey develop a system which gave emergency service vehicles access to gated communities and other restricted access areas.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
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They say love don't come easy - but it does in Bielsko-Biała!

I must apologise if this column is not the academic or historical discourse that this city so richly deserves, but it is the Bielsko-Biała that revealed itself to me – it’s also the Bielsko-Biała that I fell desperately in love with. I’m pretty sure, you will as well.

The first report:

  • Poland's EU cohesion funds stalled until conditions met says commissioner
  • Poland's Nato allies concerned about Polish visa scandal says Tusk
  • Polish official criticises Canada for honouring Ukrainian with Nazi links
  • Poland imposes vehicle checks at border with Slovakia
  • Polish defence minister signs offset deal with Lockheed Martin

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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