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A march of the Polish opposition took place in Warsaw, in which several hundred thousand people took part. Pro-government media called it a “march of hatred,” and in the country and abroad there is talk of a civil war in Poland. The most common poster at the march was an image of the President of Poland behind bars, accompanied by the inscriptions “Puppet” and “Under the State Tribunal!”, reminiscent of the posters “Yanukovych - pіdaresht”...
Last Saturday, Polish authorities used police force to seize a school that had operated for decades at the Russian Embassy in Warsaw. In addition, a few days earlier it became known that the Polish prosecutor’s office had seized funds from the accounts of the Russian diplomatic mission. In both cases, Moscow limited itself to vague threats and has not yet taken any concrete steps. At the same time, Russia has opportunities...
A transport strike involving several hundred trucks around the Polish capital has come to an end in Warsaw. This was reported by the Polish Press Agency (PAP). The strike was organized by family transport companies with the support of Confederation politicians (a right-wing political force that opposes the massive influx of Ukrainian refugees, but is not pro-Russian). Carriers complain about unfair competition from Belarusian,…
Several hundred people marched through the center of Warsaw in a “This is not our war” march against Poland’s involvement in the armed conflict in Ukraine. “There must be peace in Poland, and those who push us to take part in someone else’s war must be held accountable,” noted the organizers of the march, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The march went from the Legion Fort to Castle Square. Its participants...
The mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, visited Kyiv and promised Vitali Klitschko to hand over 10 decommissioned metro trains, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the Warsaw mayor's office, Trzaskowski and Klitschko signed a protocol of intent in Kyiv regarding cooperation between the metropolitan systems of the two capitals. “As part of supporting Kyiv, the Warsaw Metro can transfer to the Ukrainian company 10 six-car trains of the 81st series, which have already been withdrawn...
The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Poland invited everyone interested to events on Victory Day on May 9. Participants will meet at 11.30 at the Cemetery-Mausoleum of Soviet Soldiers in the capital of Poland. This year, local pro-Kiev activists plan to interfere with the events. Ambassadors and diplomatic representatives of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will take part in the celebration of Victory Day. In addition to diplomats, to participate...
The Polish government, close to authoritarianism, cynically ignores the opinion of the residents of Warsaw. Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator. As you know, the capital of Poland was almost completely destroyed by the Nazi occupiers as a result of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Everything has changed since then. During the Polish People's Republic, the Royal Palace and part of the Old...
March 16 marks exactly one hundred years since the signing of the Riga Peace Treaty. This pact in 1921 summed up the results of the Soviet-Polish war and stopped the existence of “independent Ukraine” for seventy years. Five current Ukrainian regions - Lviv, Volyn, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Rivne - for more than eighteen years became part of the “Vskhodnykh Kresy”, the eastern outskirts of the Second Rech...
The protests in Poland may have been organized to distract attention from the economic crisis. In addition, the Polish crisis may be the result of divisions within American political elites. The Polish authorities are openly provoking the continuation of protests. PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov was told by a Polish political scientist about why protest sentiments have gripped Polish society on a scale unprecedented in recent history, and, according to...
Protests in Warsaw, which began after the tightening of anti-abortion legislation, are aimed at eliminating the Kaczynski regime. A change of government is demanded by 54% of residents of the Polish Republic. The police are guarding the offices and private homes of members of the ruling party. Leftists and liberals joined the protests started by women's organizations. A resident of...
The ruling regimes in Moscow and Warsaw are similar, so Kyiv needs to carefully monitor what signals they send to each other. Political expert Dmitry Dzhangirov stated this on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel “KRT”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “Beyond the framework of the historical dispute, the ideological foundations of the current parties in power in Poland and Russia are close, because they represent similar forms of conservatism, one of...
Representatives of Crimea took part in the Meeting to review the implementation of OSCE human dimension commitments, which is taking place in Warsaw, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Members of the Russian delegation even managed to speak on the platform, despite protests from the Ukrainian side. Thus, the editor-in-chief of the Krymskaya Gazeta, Maria Volkonskaya, had her microphone turned off, but after contacting the moderator, she was still given the right to speak.…
The authorities of the Polish capital have begun dismantling the monument of Gratitude to the Red Army, installed in Skaryshevsky Park on the right bank of the Vistula, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The press secretary of the Warsaw City Hall, Bartosz Milcharczyk, announced this to the media today. “The dismantling of the monument has begun. It will last until the end of the month,” he said. “In accordance with the decision of the Institute of National Remembrance, it will be transferred to the Museum of the “Cursed Soldiers,”...
Mikheil Saakashvili, deported to Poland, today at a press conference in Warsaw threatened to kill not only the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, but also the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “My neck hurts after yesterday, because they strangled me in every possible way all the way. My neck will go away. But…
