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Poles play down Russian hooligan fears [May 15, 2012] WARSAW (AFP) - Polish authorities on Tuesday played down fears of trouble when the Euro 2012 host nation meets Russia next month in what looks set to be the most politically charged match of the tournament. [via YahooNews] More >>

Football: Poles play down Russian hooligan fears [May 15, 2012] (WARSAW ) - Polish authorities on Tuesday played down fears of trouble when the Euro 2012 host nation meets Russia next month in what looks set to be the most politically charged match of the tournament. [via YahooNews] More >>

RIA Novosti: Polish Ukrainians demand compensation for Operation Vistula [May 02, 2012] Participants of the Second Congress of Ukrainians in Poland, which took place in late April in the Polish town of Przemysl, issued a statement in which they demanded from the Polish authorities to give political and legal assessment of the Operation Vistula and recognize it as repression, Ukrainian information agency UNIAN reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish Ukrainians Demand Compensation for Operation Vistula [May 02, 2012] Participants of the Second Congress of Ukrainians in Poland, which took place in late April in the Polish town of Przemysl, issued a statement in which they demanded from the Polish authorities to give political and legal assessment of the Operation Vistula and recognize it as repression, Ukrainian information agency UNIAN reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Warsaw backtracks on Lech Poznan ban [Apr 20, 2012] Polish authorities on Friday backtracked on a security-driven decision to bar fans of Lech Poznan from a match against league leaders Legia Warsaw, but pledged to crack down if there was trouble. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland exhumes victim of 2010 plane crash that killed president and 95 others [Mar 19, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Polish authorities have exhumed a politician who was killed along with President Lech Kaczynski in a 2010 plane crash in Russia because his family voiced doubts about the Russian autopsy.The exhumation Monday in Warsaw of Przemyslaw Gosiewski is the second such exhumation of one of the 96 people killed near Smolensk, Russia, along with Kaczynski.It reflects a deep distrust ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland seizes $100 million in fake US bonds [Mar 19, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Eight people are to be questioned on counterfeiting charges on Monday after they were found with $100 million in fake U.S. treasury bonds in their possession, Polish authorities say. [via YahooNews] More >>

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsPoland exhumes another 2010 plane crash victim [Mar 19, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish authorities have exhumed a politician who was killed along with President Lech Kaczynski in a 2010 plane crash in Russia because his family voiced doubts about the Russian autopsy. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish authorities seize $100 million in fake US treasury bonds, arrest 8 people [Mar 19, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Eight people are to be questioned on counterfeiting charges on Monday after they were found with $100 million in fake U.S. treasury bonds in their possession, Polish authorities say.The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, a state agency, said the suspects ? three Poles, two Italians, two Ukrainians, and a Moldovan woman ? were arrested on Sunday afternoon in regions around ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland exhumes another 2010 plane crash victim [Mar 19, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Polish authorities have exhumed a politician who was killed along with President Lech Kaczynski in a 2010 plane crash in Russia because his family voiced doubts about the Russian autopsy. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland aims to boost tourism at Hitler's WWII lair [Jan 23, 2012] WARSAW (AFP) - Polish authorities said Monday they plan to boost tourism at Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Wolfsschanze" (Wolf's Lair), which ended up on their territory after post-war border changes. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland Fines 'Blaspheming' Pop Star for Criticizing Bible [Jan 18, 2012] Polish pop star Dorota ?Doda? Rabczewska was recently fined $1,450 by Polish authorities for defaming the Bible in a 2009 interview, which shows, observers say, that Poland still clings to its strong Roman Catholic roots even as it faces a more secularized society. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland charges 46 for involvement in attacks on police in Independence Day violence [Nov 14, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Polish prosecutors have filed criminal charges against 46 people suspected of attacking police during Independence Day marches in Warsaw. The charges Sunday come as Polish authorities have moved quickly to put on trial some of the 210 people arrested in Friday?s attacks. Officials are taking a tough stance against violence before the Euro 2012 soccer championships next year ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland charges 46 in attacks on police in marches [Nov 13, 2011] The Associated Press The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Polish prosecutors have filed criminal charges against 46 people suspected of attacking police during Independence Day marches in Warsaw. The charges Sunday come as Polish authorities have moved quickly to put on trial some of the 210 people arrested in Friday's attacks. Officials are taking a tough stance against violence before the Euro ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland charges 46 for involvement in attacks on police in Independence Day violence [Nov 13, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Polish prosecutors have filed criminal charges against 46 people suspected of attacking police during Independence Day marches in Warsaw. The charges Sunday come as Polish authorities have moved quickly to put on trial some of the 210 people arrested in Friday?s attacks. Officials are taking a tough stance against violence before the Euro 2012 soccer championships next year ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland has allocated $ 50 million soft loan to Tajikistan [Oct 30, 2011] The Polish authorities have allocated $ 50 million soft loan to Tajikistan. As reported by 29 October correspondent BakuToday , of the 28 October in Dushanbe at a press conference following a regular meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on economic and trade relations between the two countries informed the Deputy Minister of economy of Poland Rafa? Ban [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland reopens long-dormant investigation into Auschwitz and other concentration camp crimes [Oct 29, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into World War II crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps that was closed in the 1980s because of the country?s isolation behind the Iron Curtain. One aim of the new probe is to track down any living Nazi perpetrators, according to an announcement Thursday by the Institute of National Remembrance, a state body that ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsPoland reopens investigation into Auschwitz crimes [Oct 27, 2011] WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into World War II crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps that was closed in the 1980s because of the country's isolation behind the Iron Curtain. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland reopens investigation into Auschwitz crimes [Oct 27, 2011] VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into World War II crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps that was closed in the 1980s because of the country's isolation behind the Iron Curtain. One aim of the new probe is to track down any living Nazi perpetrators, according to an announcement Thursday by the Institute of National ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland: Auschwitz Investigation Reopened [Oct 27, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into World War II crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps that was closed in the 1980s because of the country's isolation behind the Iron Curtain. [via YahooNews] More >>