Adam Michnik is a Polish historian,essayist,former dissident,public intellectual,as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper,Gazeta Wyborcza.
Gazeta Wyborcza is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw,Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the trade union "Solidarity" in the election campaign before the Contract Sejm. Initially created to cover Poland's first partially free parliamentary elections,it rapidly grew into a major publication,reaching a circulation of over 500,000 copies at its peak in the 1990s.
Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej is an opinion polling institute in Poland,based in Warsaw. Originally established in communist Poland in 1982,it has operated as a non-profit public foundation created by a special law since 1997. Its statutory purpose is to provide data on the population's opinion regarding political and social issues. Major Polish newspapers and news magazines,such as Gazeta Wyborcza,Rzeczpospolita,and Polityka,regularly commission CBOS to conduct polls. Apart from its public function,CBOS also conducts commercial market research to help finance its operations.
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.
The Nike Literary Award is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for Polish literature. Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza,Poland's second largest daily paper,and the consulting company NICOM,it is conferred annually in October. It is open for nominees from all literary genres,including non-fiction essays and autobiographies.
Mirosław Orzechowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 3474 votes in 9 Łódźdistrict,as a candidate from the League of Polish Families list. In Jarosław Kaczyński's government he was a deputy minister of national education.
Tomasz Wojciech Lipiec is a retired Polish race walker and former Polish Minister for Sport in the government of Jarosław Kaczyński.
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.
Agora Spółka Akcyjna is a Polish media company. Agora and Gazeta Wyborcza were created on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 1989. Gazeta Wyborcza became the first independent newspaper in Poland,while Agora grew into one of the largest and most renowned media companies in Poland. Since 1999 Agora's shares have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
The Silesian Wikipedia is the Silesian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 26 May 2008.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw is one of the Polish capital's notable landmarks. It stands before the Staszic Palace,the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences on Krakowskie Przedmieście. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822,it was completed in 1830. Thorvaldsen's original plaster model from 1822 and a smaller study from 1821 are both held by the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen.
Lithuanian–Polish–Ukrainian Brigade "TLATAS" is a multinational brigade countries of the Lublin Triangle consisting of units from the Lithuanian,Polish and Ukrainian armies. Other countries are free to join the trilateral agreement. An agreement on its creation was signed on November 16,2009. The brigade was to reach operational status in autumn 2011,but it was delayed;a January 2012 estimate put that date at some time in 2013. The unit was finally formed on September 19,2014. In July 2015 the defense ministers of the three countries signed an agreement on the operation of the unit.
Prof. Lech Szczucki was a Polish historian of philosophy and culture,particularly noted since the 1960s for his work on the Polish Brethren. He was a professor emeritus of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. A regular member of the Warsaw Scientific Society,a member of the Society for the Promotion and Propagation of Sciences. A former editor of "Archivum",and now on the Program Committee. Prof. Szczucki was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science for explaining the cultural ties between Central and Western Europe in a monumental edition of the correspondence of Andrzej Dudycz,the 16th-century thinker,religious reformer and diplomat.
Białystok railway station is the most important railway station in the city of Białystok,Poland. It is sometimes referred to as Białystok Central,to distinguish it from six other,much smaller,stations located in the city.
The Warsaw Spire is a complex of neomodern office buildings in Warsaw,Poland,constructed by the Belgian real estate developer Ghelamco.
Grzegorz MichałBraun is a Polish politician. He served as a member of the Sejm for Rzeszów from 2019 to 2024. He has been Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown since 2019 and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024.
RafałKazimierz Trzaskowski is a Polish politician who has been serving as city mayor of Warsaw since 22 November 2018. He is also a political scientist specializing in European studies. He publicly supports European integration,the introduction of same-sex marriage,ecological transformation and a greater role for local governments in voivodeships.
Magdalena Joanna Sroka is a Polish police officer and politician,serving as a member of the Sejm. She was the leader of Agreement political party between 2022 and 2023. Since 2023 she is a member of Polish People’s Party.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Poland was a part of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 strain of coronavirus. As of 21 August 2024,Poland had 6,680,897 confirmed cases,and 120,636 deaths due to COVID-19.
Bartosz (Bart)Staszewski (born 23 September 1990) is a Polish filmmaker and LGBT activist. He is the creator of the documentary Article Eighteen,co-founder of the Equality March in Lublin association and the MiłośćNie Wyklucza foundation ('Love Does Not Exclude'),which promotes same-sex marriage in Poland. Staszewski was the target of death threats and intimidation in 2019 and 2021 in relation to his activism.
