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Polish apiculture on UNESCO heritage list

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Polish apiculture has been included on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List, the Polish culture ministry announced on Thursday. This is the second Polish entry on the list after Krakow's nativity scene tradition.

Serenading, egg painting and seed sowing just three of the traditions to make it on to list of intangible cultural heritage

The list of intangible cultural heritage is part of an international effort to preserve traditions under the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Battle of Warsaw memorial symbolises solidarity among people - dep PM

A memorial commemorating the role played by international cooperation during the Polish-Bolshevik War is a monument to international solidarity, a senior government minister has said.

Polish watercolour painting lost during WWII is restored

'Buckwheat,' a watercolour painting by Stanislaw Maslowski lost during World War Two, has been restored and handed over to the National Museum in Warsaw by Deputy PM and Culture Minister Piotr Glinski on Tuesday.

Poland should take over non-state media when possible - Deputy PM

State-owned companies should take over media wherever possible, Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski told the RMF FM radio broadcaster on Tuesday, commenting on the possible purchase of a publishing company by Polish fuel concern PKN Orlen,

Council of Ministers meeting held via videoconference on Friday

On Friday afternoon a meeting of the Council of Ministers was held in the form of a videoconference, announced the Prime Minister's Office. This was the first government meeting in its new composition.

Polish president appoints reshuffled cabinet

Polish President Andrzej Duda appointed new ministers for the reshuffled Mateusz Morawiecki cabinet on Tuesday afternoon, except for the planned new education and science minister, Przemyslaw Czarnek, who has contracted coronavirus.

Culture ministry opens exhibition on late president in Solidarity

An exhibition, entitled 'Lech Kaczynski. A man of solidarity,' telling the story of the late president and his engagement in the trade union, was opened on Monday at the yard of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw.

Staged battle: Miracle on the Vistula re-enacted in theatrical spectacle

National stadium converted into giant battlefield to celebrate a victory that saved Poland’s independence 100 years ago.

President lays wreath at monument to Marshal Józef Piłsudski

Polish President Andrzej Duda laid a wreath at a memorial to inter-war Polish strongman Marshal Józef Piłsudski on Saturday to mark both Armed Forces Day and the centenary of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

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