According to Ukraine's Health Ministry, 1,031,597 people in Ukraine have fallen ill with "flu, acute respiratory illness and their complications (pneumonia, etc.)" between Oct. 29 and Nov. 9 - and 174 of them have died. In the Ukrainian blogosphere, much of the discussion of the current medical emergency focuses on whether there are enough reasons to panic or not.
guardian.co.ukPoland: the lost generation that fled hard-fought freedomsguardian.co.uk"No one expected the emigration to be so huge because there's no need to escape from this country any more. They weren't persecuted. ...and more »
Times OnlineThe Berlin Wall, 20 Years LaterAMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, OnlinePermanent emigration is henceforth allowed across all border crossing points between East Germany and West Germany and West Berlin.” What's this? ...Berlin Wall 20 years anniversary events in Germany - PHOTOSESSIONAPAThe Fall of the Wall: 20 Years OnIndependentall 4,431 news articles »
This man obviously got the best of our system. He now wants to get the best of those who want to get rid of that system. He masquerades as the “against all” candidate. Meet Vasyl Protyvsikh, president of Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce and a former chief of Ivano-Frankivsk Customs. Presidential candidate Vasyl Protyvsikh: I was thinking about this question: Uh...the government is for the people, the president is for the people, the Verkhovna ...
Apologizing to Poland My latest column in the Krakow Post. “I wish to take the opportunity to offer my sincere and heartfelt apologies to the people of Poland. I was misinformed/not thinking/drunk at the time and I promise it will never happen again. I have yet to do or say anything to offend Poland, but [...]
I don't remember the first time I saw Pani Basia, but I do remember the last. She was sitting on a battered chair on the pavement outside my building. Blue lights and paramedics were standing by, hands on hips. It looked like she'd fallen again. I didn't see her fall, but then I didn't see her fall the first time. We just found her on her back, struggling, for all the world like a cartoon turtle, except the splash of blood from her head wasn't fu...
Once again we have another round-number date to observe: the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Poland. Once again we are told that we must observe it with shame and guilt. We must declare ad nauseam that …never ever again from German soil … etc., etc. But what else could we expect from such a ... Under the nonaggression treaty German newspapers were not allowed to report on Polish atrocities against the minority Germans, which led to the emigra...
Adam Roberts: The peaceful revolution of 1989IndependentIn Poland, industrial strikes under the banner of Solidarity undermined the whole raison d'être of a workers' state. In East Germany, a huge emigration ...and more »
The outbreak of the Polish November Uprising seven days later, and its subsequent suppression by Russia, led to Chopin's becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a ...
Yanukovych brings 30,000 flu masks to Vinnytsya, with a promise of supplying the entire Ukraine with 20,000,000 more. (From Donbas? Wrong. From China!) For him, touching base with swing voters in central and western Ukraine means greater chances of winning. Tymoshenko brings equipment to a Lviv hospital. For her, losing western Ukraine means losing. Kid [obviously recalling a nightmare]: ...a dog will come to me! PM Tymoshenko: Really? That’s...
A serious change in the Polish retirement system is here to stay. Most of our pension contributions will stay in the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) because the Ministry of Finance wants part of the contributions, which have so far been transferred to the Open Retirement Funds (OFE), to remain in special accounts in the ZUS. [...]
Information Policy links to a BusinessWeek/TOL article on social networks and the media in Central and Eastern Europe.
Polandian writes about and posts photos of the Polish graffiti.
Foreign Policy Association's Russia blog writes about the results of a Pew Research Center's poll on poverty, wealth and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe “20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.”
Telegraph.co.ukBlood And Velvet In Eastern Europe's Season Of ChangeRadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyBut he was ineffective against the mass protests, and could not hold back East German emigration to the West through Czechoslovakia. ...20 years after: The world, a wall, the Cold War and triumph of willThe Guardian - NigeriaDaniel Johnson: The Berlin Wall ... Seven Minutes that Shook the WorldHistory News Networkall 1,723 news articles »...
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She says we have no swine flu epidemic but enough material to produce 95 million masks in 10 days.In the meantime, she readily accepts international aid and says the first H1N1 (or “California flu,” as she brands it) fatality has been confirmed in Kyiv.Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/137997.htmlOriginal source: http://tsn.ua
“Lech Kaczyński will lose the presidential elections because he is unable to see his own flaws,” said a member of Law and Justice (PiS) on his blog. Maciej Eckardt is the vice-president of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region, which makes the criticism even more serious. According to Eckardt, the current President has no chance for re-election because [...]
Polish migrants 'still taking root' abroadEurActivIt also estimates that Poland's GDP would now be lower had the recent emigration not taken place. However, the economy ministry's report neglected to focus ...and more »
Polandian Theme Month is a cunning invention that does away with the need for me to think up a new idea every week. This month's theme is My Polish Street, which has the double advantage of providing a framework for a series of devastatingly incisive posts on modern urban Poland as well as eliminating the need for me to walk very far to take pictures. Today: Polish Graffiti.
Ghosts, vampires and skeletons were having fun all over the city. A few years ago Halloween evoked extreme opinions – the advocates of the Polish tradition perceived it as profanation of All Saints Day. Today it is popular and night parties do not interfere with celebrating the Polish tradition. “These two holidays do not [...]
Tymoshenko walks around and calls it California flu (Read: not originated here — not my fault.)Ukraine entered the epidemic without appropriate test labs and thus had to send all its tests to the UK. And by the way, now that the death toll has reached 71, our Sanitary Doctor General says there’s no swine flu epidemic in Ukraine — just the regular flu.Yanukovych talks about taking regular cold showers that boost his immune system. The man also pri...
the POLSKI blog reports that “Basia, whose voice is familiar to anyone who in the early 1980s danced to Whose Side Are You On?, is back with a new album.”
Leopolis writes on “life after the shield” and the U.S.-Polish relations.
Thoughts on schooling in Poland vs schooling in the UK - at 20 east.
“Everyone is a historian here, everyone is preoccupied arguing who Vilnius belonged to in the past, whose it should be now, and whether true Lithuanians were of Slavic or Baltic origin. It almost seems as if Lithuanian modernity was nonexistent,” writes Andrei Khrapavitski about online and offline debates in Lithuania. “I don’t know what the [...]
End of Communism Cheered but Now with More ReservationsThe Pew Global Attitudes ProjectThroughout Eastern Europe, people generally express more concern about emigration than immigration. However, relatively few Russians cite emigration as a ...and more »
Polish State Railways (PKP) are facing a tragic situation. PKP Regional Railway Services, which for many Polish people is their only connection with civilisation, will soon cease to exist. The Supervisory Board wants the Management Board to declare bankruptcy within a week. As a consequence, only small railway companies and Intercity will be left. [...]
Don’t panic! She’s just covering her anatomy. Enjoy this you-are-not-alone-I'm-here-with-you-I’m-not-fully-responsible address.PM Yulia Tymoshenko [1:49-2:30]: And therefore far from all acute respiratory diseases are the California flu. For example, out of 178,000 people who have gone down with the flu in our country since the beginning of the year, only 14 as of this moment are recognized as ill with the California flu. The third thing you need...
I was in Kraków a couple of days ago on business, only the second time I’ve visited this year. It’s always held a certain attractiveness for me due to the beautiful surrounding countryside and the impression that the mountains are close by. It’s large historical Old Town and busy shopping streets also add character and [...]
At least 61 people are in critical condition. H1N1 has been officially confirmed in seven cases. Schools and kindergartens in nine oblasts have been closed: Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Zakarpattya, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Khmelnytsk and Vinnytsya.“Ukraine has entered a flu epidemic, of the so-called California (swine) type. As of October 29, we have 951 people hospitalized. Unfortunately, we have to note 30 fatalities,” Minister of Healthс...
Moment MagazineUkrainian University's Anti-Semitic CrusadeMoment MagazineLater when emigration laws loosened as a result of international pressure and perestroika, nearly half a million Jews left for Israel and the West. ...and more »
What is the best solution when you experience fatigue at work? A year-long leave spent travelling to the farthest corners of the world. Increasingly more Polish employees decide to depart on such trips. “Employers from Western Europe long ago discovered that this is a splendid way of motivating their workers. They have even established the [...]
A complete unknown has landed the most sought after role in Polish law enforcement according to anonymous sources. When the part became available last month dozens of complete nobodies descended on Poland’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) hoping to play the sexy spy. “Casting the role was a difficult task,” said a CBA official “but we’re confident [...]
(Note: The title is a bad pun.)Most everyone must have heard about the recent developments with the US plans for a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. (They were pretty much cancelled, if you hadn't heard.) Anyway, the missile shield is being scaled back from a land-based one to a sea-based one. One can debate the practicalities of such a move and most of the response has been favorable, except from the respective governments. T...
In Eastern Europe, advances toward accountability but more to doJewish Telegraphic AgencyA museum, a wall of names and a vast symbolic field of ashes at the site of the Belzec death camp in Poland. A giant menorah and the statue of a tortured ...'Nothing Short of Monstrous'Jackson Free PressEurope must focus on Baltic hateJewish Chronicleall 3 news articles »
They’re working. They want it all.MP Hanna Herman (PRU): When you’re standing, you feel some sort of movement. And we here are ready to take the first steps.MP Serhiy Kivalov (PRU): People were saying really sincerely that the only candidacy from the Party of Regions is Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych.MP Oleksandr Kuzmuk (PRU): There will be order in the country.Reporter Mustafa Nayem: What happens if Yanukovych doesn’t win? MP Nestor Shufrych (PRU)...
Tablet MagazineA Towering ExampleTablet MagazineArens acknowledged that Zionism and emigration to Palestine were “anathema” to the Bund and that the Bund “reserved a special hatred” for Jabotinsky, ...
Arens acknowledged that Zionism and emigration to Palestine were “anathema” to the Bund and that the Bund “reserved a special hatred” for Jabotinsky, who had called on the Jews to flee Poland. “The Bund's lofty ideals took precedence ...
Emigrate.co.uk News ... Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia and all relaxed restrictions on travel upon accession on 2004, with Italy, Spain, Portugal, Finland, following in 2006. ...
The company Gourmet Foods, which imports and distributes Dilmah tea, will open a “t-bar” in Warsaw, the first outlet of a new tea shop chain. It is highly probable that the first t-bar will be opened in Warsaw this year. Gourmet Foods plans to develop the tea house chain under the name “t-bar”. “For the [...]
All motorcycle riders from the Orlen Team are in the top ten after two stages of the Morocco Rally. Jakub Przygoński came out best and is now ranked seventh. Cyril Depsres won Monday’s stage and Jordi Viladoms maintained his position as leader. The stage was shortened because of a serious car accident to the technical [...]
The latest review of U.S. defense policy has produced a new alternative to the controversial and long-delayed missile batteries promised to Poland by former president George W Bush. The new scheme, known by the code name ‘Baseball Bat’ has been described as “pretty scary” by Polish defense analysts. “To be honest,” said U.S. Vice President [...]
22-year-old Maria Nowakowska, from Legnica, is the new Miss Poland. She works as a sales representative in a pharmaceutical company and studies at the Witelon University of Applied Sciences in Legnica. She is interested in cinema, music, and tennis. Her biggest dream is to have a house by a lake and a family. Angelika Jakubowska, [...]
Blame Guinness, blame U2, blame generations of large scale emigration — the Irish are everywhere. Which got me thinking — what are our South African cultural export products? A bit of market research reveals that apartheid, Nelson Mandela and Charlize ... For a second I felt like Poland, freed from the Nazis by the communists. Like the restaurant lobster who thought he'd escaped, like Andre Stander on that Miami morning. The Boere will get you, n...