Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper was a Polish politician,Deputy Prime Minister,Minister of Agriculture,and the leader of Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland political party.
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005,and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president,he previously served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001.
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a Polish politician. He has been the leader of the Law and Justice party (PiS) since 2003. He served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2006 to 2007,and has twice held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Poland,first from 2020 to 2022,and a second time from June to November 2023.
Roman Jacek Giertych is a Polish political figure,historian,advocate,and dissident against the PiS government. Giertych served in PiS government as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of National Education from May 2006 to August 2007. He was a member of the Sejm from 2001 to 2007 and the chairman of the League of Polish Families party.
The Internal Security Agency,ISA is Poland's domestic counterintelligence and security agency. The ABW is responsible for analyzing,reporting and preventing threats to Poland's internal security,including terrorism,foreign espionage,arms smuggling,drug trafficking,organized crime,corruption and economic coercion. Its powers include arresting individuals,conducting searches and investigations,and combating terrorism with a specialized armed anti-terrorist force.
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 31 October 2005 to 14 July 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party.
On 28 January 2006,the roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair collapsed in Chorzów / Katowice,Poland.
Mariusz Kamiński is a Polish politician who served as the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) from August 2006 to October 2009. He served between 2019 and 2023 as the Minister of the Interior and Administration,in addition to coordinating Polish secret services,which he had done previously as a minister without portfolio. Kamiński also served as a member of the Sejm.
Marek Tadeusz Kuchciński is a member of the Sejm of Poland,first elected in 2001. Before 2015,he served the parliament as one of the Deputy Marshals of the Sejm,nominated by the Law and Justice club,and also as the Parliamentary Caucus Head of the above-mentioned party. From 2015 to 2019,when his party possessed the majority of seats in both houses,he held the office of Marshal of the Sejm.
Janusz Marian Palikot is a Polish politician,activist and businessman. Palikot studied philosophy and became wealthy as a businessman who dealt with crates and distilled beverages. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 in the 6 Lublin district,running on the Civic Platform list,and was re-elected in 2007.
Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro is a Polish politician. He served as the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland in the Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki until 27 November 2023. He previously served in the same role from October 2005 to November 2007,simultaneously serving as the Public Prosecutor General. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 in the 13th Kraków district,running on the Law and Justice party list. He received over 120,000 votes in the parliamentary election,the highest percentage constituency results in the election.
Mariusz Błaszczak is a Polish politician,historian,and local government representative. Błaszczak has served as Minister of National Defence of Poland from 2018 to 2023.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 20 June 2010. As no candidate received a majority of votes in the first round,a second round was held on 4 July 2010. Bronisław Komorowski,the acting President of Poland and vice-chairman of the Civic Platform,defeated Jarosław Kaczyński,twin brother of recently deceased President Lech Kaczyński and chairman of Law and Justice (PiS). The global financial crisis,flooding in Poland and the Smolensk disaster were the main themes in the last months of the election campaign.
Konrad Kornatowski is a Polish lawyer (prosecutor) and policeman;from 12 February to 8 August Polish Chief of Police. On 9 August 2007 he resigned as Poland's Chief of Police in protest of the sacking on the same day of Interior Minister Janusz Kaczmarek.
The Nangar Khel incident,sometimes called the Nangar Khel massacre,took place in the Afghan village of Nangar Khel on August 16,2007. A few hours after an insurgent IED ambush which damaged Polish wheeled armored vehicle,a patrol of Polish soldiers from the elite 18th Airborne-Assault Battalion taking part in the International Security Assistance Force opened heavy machine gun and 60 mm mortar fire at the area of the village. The attack resulted in the deaths of 6 civilians,including a pregnant woman and 3 children,and seriously injured 3 other women.
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski is a Polish lawyer,politician and government official who served as the Minister of Justice of Poland in Cabinet of Donald Tusk from 2009 until 2011,Public Prosecutor General from 2009 until 2010,and as President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) from 2013 until 2019. He was also a member of Senate from 2007 until 2011.
On 10 April 2010,a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk,killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland,Lech Kaczyński,and his wife,Maria;the former president of Poland in exile,Ryszard Kaczorowski;the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers;the president of the National Bank of Poland;Polish government officials;18 members of the Polish parliament;senior members of the Polish clergy;and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the massacre,which took place not far from Smolensk.
Equality marches or equality parades are the Polish equivalent of pride parades,which aim to improve LGBT rights in Poland. They have been held in various Polish cities and towns since 2001.
Zbigniew Rau is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland between 2020 and 2023. He previously served as the voivode and governor of ŁódźVoivodeship from 2015 to 2019.
The 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland,commonly called the Women's Strike,were anti-government demonstrations and protests in Poland that began on 22 October 2020,in reaction to a ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal,mainly consisting of judges who were appointed by the ruling Law and Justice dominated United Right,which tightened the law on abortion in Poland. The ruling made almost all cases of abortion illegal,including those cases in which the foetus had a severe and permanent disability,or an incurable and life-threatening disease. All-Poland Women's Strike was charged by the authorities for having illegally organised the protests.
