Polish intelligentsia face post-communist vetting
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Andrzej Krawczyk was arrested on a Warsaw street in 1982 with a backpack containing 1,000 pro-democracy leaflets protesting against martial law and the communist crackdown on the Solidarity trade union.
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Since identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski shot to power in Poland last year, the EU newcomer has become the bloc's enfant terrible _ deepening ties with Washington and displaying Euro-skepticism on ...Comment
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Poland is holding a series of solemn ceremonies and re-enactments marking the 25th anniversary of the deadly nationwide crackdown by communist-era authorities.Comment
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Since Poland joined the E.U. in 2004, more than a million Poles, mainly young, have come to Britain, but a decline in Polish immigrants could be a bigger problem than a surplus.
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MOSCOW (CP) - Russia's once-mighty Communist party, battling internal strife and facing electoral extinction, has embraced a surprising late-life mission: to champion democracy against the encroachments of an increasingly authoritarian Kremlin.
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Russia's refusal to cooperate with the  West to ensure a fair election in Ukraine signals that Moscow  is slipping back to Soviet-style tactics, a senior Polish  diplomat was quoted Wednesday as saying.
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The ending of border checks between the former communist states of eastern Europe and Western neighbours on Friday carries a potent symbolism for those who for long lived behind the Iron Curtain and were then made to feel like "second class citizens" in a united Europe.
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Pope John Paul was spied on by Vatican   informers working for the Polish secret services in the   communist era, a Polish cardinal was quoted as saying on   Tuesday.
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As Ukraine's ex-President Leonid Kuchma settles into a comfortable retirement, his future is in the hands of some of his fiercest political enemies, who accuse him of misdeeds ranging from corruption to ordering the murder of a journalist.
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WARSAW, Poland  - A Polish legislature panel investigating allegations of high-level bribery broadened its mission this week, demanding the release of communist-era secret files on President Aleksander Kwasniewski and 31 other officials.
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Poland's main opposition party on Friday proposed early elections as a way out of a spiralling government crisis brought on by scandals.Comment
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Poland on Monday looked headed for a new pro-business, Europe-friendly government after the opposition liberals trounced the Kaczynski twins' ruling conservative alliance in a snap election.
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The Ukrainian presidential election and its aftermath have been marked by propaganda that is exposing old fractures in the former Soviet republic. Differences that are broadly defined by an east-west divide are bursting to the surface.
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"Today we cannot count on PiS's honesty and that PiS would not interfere with the election with the use of special services."  By Adam JasserWARSAW  - Prosecutors detained on Thursday Poland's recently fired interior minister, who has accused Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski of using secret services to spy on rival politicians.The prosecutor service said Janusz Kaczmarek was hampering an investigation into a corruption case. The opposition said Kaczynski was trying to muzzle critics ahead of an expected snap election."The detention is connected with a penal investigation concerning a leak into an anti-corruption office operation ...," Warsaw prosecutor Marzena Mucha-Podlewska told reporters. Read more
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Poles began voting on Sunday in a snap  parliamentary election that could cost the conservative ruling  Kaczynski twins their full grip on government in the European  Union's biggest former communist country.
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Prosecutors detained on Thursday Poland's recently fired interior minister, who has accused Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski of using secret services to spy on rival politicians.
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When communist rulers cracked down on Poland's Solidarity movement in 1981, Malgorzata Niezabitowska risked prison to smuggle out photographs of tanks on Warsaw's streets and police turning water cannons on protesters.