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Art gallery assassination!

Just five days after being elected as Poland’s first president, Gabriel Narutowicz (R) was gunned down in cold blood by Eligiusz Niewiadomski (L) at the Zachęta art gallery in Warsaw. Public domain/CC BY-SA 3.0

Just five days after being elected as Poland’s first president in the newly independent second republic, Gabriel Narutowicz was gunned down in cold blood during the opening of an art exhibition. TFN’s Nick Westerby looks back at the extraordinary events 98 years ago today. 

Poland marks 100th anniversary of regaining access to the Baltic and the ‘Marriage to the Sea’

The marriage was to commemorate the country re-establishing itself as a maritime power on the Baltic Sea.

World War WHO?!? PM hits back at Putin’s lie that Poland started WWII

Posting on Facebook, Morawiecki lashed out at the Russian president accusing him of rewriting history following his claims that it was Poland’s response to the Munich agreement of 1938, and not the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that caused the war.

One of the largest and most beautiful horseracing tracks in the world, Warsaw’s Slużewiec celebrates its 80th first racetrack anniversary

Chiefly designed by Polish architect Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk, the racetrack drew on two styles that were popular in Poland in the 1930s: functionalism and the smooth lines of ocean liners. Today it is considered a ‘pearl of European equestrian architecture’ representing the future of racetrack design. 

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  • 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
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Polish WWII agent who Churchill called his favourite spy has luxurious hotel suite named in her honour

One of World War Two's most daring spies Krystyna Skarbek has received an opulent tribute with the naming of a lavish suite in her honour at the new Raffles Hotel in London opened its doors on Friday.

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  • British deputy defence, foreign ministers to take part in Warsaw forum
  • Poland's governing party still in the lead ahead of Oct. 15 election
  • PiS MP says Germany will deceive Ukraine
  • Bank PKO BP forecasts GDP growth at 0.5 pct this year, 3 pct next

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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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