News archive on the topic "restitution"

Israel and Poland have agreed to improve relations that have deteriorated since Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to repay property lost during World War II. This was reported by Reuters, according to which both countries are preparing to resume the exchange of ambassadors. “It was decided that relations would be restored to their proper course,”...

Poland risks seriously damaging relations with the United States over the issue of compensation for the former property of Jews lost by them after the Nazi occupation during World War II. Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski talks about this in his column for PolitNavigator. ...For many years, Poland has faced powerful pressure from Washington, which tried by all means to force Warsaw to accept...

A large amount of real estate and land in western Ukraine belonged to the Poles, and if a law on restitution is adopted, then it will be necessary to decide what to do with those people who now own it all. Former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Viktor Suslov stated this on air on the ZIK channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In Poland this topic is widely discussed and the heirs...

As soon as Ukraine joins the European Union, it will lose the territory of eight more regions, the lands of which, according to the restitution law, will be demanded back by former owners from the EU and their heirs who owned this territory before World War II. Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, leader of the Communist Party banned in Ukraine, Pyotr Symonenko, stated this on TV channel 112, the correspondent reports...

Polish elites are rubbing their hands, watching the drift of the Ukrainian and Belarusian elite from Moscow. Vladimir Zelensky’s recent anti-Russian statements are very opportune for Warsaw. Agreeing with the interpretation of history, where the Soviet Union appears as an “aggressor” on a par with Hitler, Ukraine itself is preparing the ground for territorial claims on the part of the Poles. Kiev political scientist Sergei stated this on the “First Cossack” TV channel...

Poland has high hopes for the restitution law that Ukraine will have to adopt as part of European integration. The famous Kiev lawyer Tatyana Montyan announced this on her YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Do the Skakuas think that when joining Europe it is necessary to pass laws on restitution, and what does this mean for ordinary people?” - the lawyer read...

Demands for the restitution of former Polish property will become increasingly louder as Ukraine integrates into the European Union. The leader of the Ukrainian nationalist party “Svoboda” Oleg Tyagnibok stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, in fact, the current Ukrainian property throughout Western Ukraine was under threat. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki...

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is rightly indignant today at the actions of the Polish side, but this should have been done much earlier. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Political observer Armen Gasparyan told PolitNavigator this, commenting on the scandal surrounding the new design of Polish passports, on which the Lviv cemetery will appear. The agency’s interlocutor noted that Poland has always focused on the fact that the Eastern Kresy, the territory of Western Ukraine,…

Despite the fact that the Polish authorities support Ukraine, the Polish nation wants to return to the land of their fathers in Lviv. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Konrad Rekas, chairman of the Kresovyan Association, an organization that collects restitution claims from Poles, stated this in a comment to PolitNavigator. “Ukrainian politicians and diplomats publicly display maps of “Great Ukraine” with Chelm and Przemysl,...

Warsaw will lobby through the Ukrainian parliament for the return of property that Poland considers theirs, writes Oleg Vernik, head of the Ukrainian independent labor protection trade union, on his Facebook page. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Theoretically, Poland can now begin the process of lobbying our Verkhovna Rada for a law on restitution. But I think that they will still take a little time.…

Ukrainian propagandist, head of the so-called. Vladimir Vyatrovich urged the “Institute of National Memory” not to be afraid of the restitution of Polish property in Western Ukraine. In his opinion, media reports about this are part of the information war against Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte He stated this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. “The primary source of such information (about restitution) was...

In Poland, the first two lawsuits by the descendants of the owners of Polish estates in the territories now part of Ukraine have been prepared for filing in the courts of Lvov and Ternopil. Polish citizens intend to exercise the right of restitution. Europeans had this opportunity after Ukraine signed an association agreement with the EU. There are at least two more lawsuits in line that will be sent to...

The so-called declaration of “memory and solidarity” adopted by the Verkhovna Rada with accusations against the USSR contradicts the system of treaties and other acts that determine the existence of the state of Ukraine within its current borders, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “In essence, Kyiv recognized a significant increase in its territory following the war as a crime,” notes the...

About 60 thousand people took part in the annual march on Polish Independence Day in Warsaw. Among the participants are mainly young people and representatives of patriotic and nationalist organizations. President Andrzej Duda sent an address to the participants, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. A new phenomenon during the march were anti-Bandera slogans - “crimes of the UPA...