Tag: Poland

According to the Polish Ministry of the Interior, beginning on 1 June 23, Belarusian and Russian trucks and freight carriers will longer be able to cross the Polish border. The announcement reads below: "...from midnight on June 1 (Thursday) until further notice, the border traffic of goods at border crossings...

According to the Polish Foreign Ministry, 365 Belarusian citizens, including 159 Members of Parliament (MP)s were added to the Polish sanction list and are not welcome in the country. This is in response to the denial of an appeal from Belarusian-Polish journalist, Andrezej Poczobut. In February, he was sentenced to...

At 2331L on 27 February 2015, Boris Nemtsov was shot several times in the back crossing the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow, close to the Kremlin walls and Red Square. Nemtsov served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin and was one of the most severe critics of Vladimir Putin. He...

Pavel Astakhov, the Russian Children's Ombudsman from 2009-2016, has been condemned by the Polish government for comments made on a television program hosted by Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. Astakhov said he wonders why the Polish ambassador to Russia has yet to be "found floating in the Moskva River", after recalling the...

Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia have enacted a temporary ban on importing Ukrainian grain products. The move has drawn the ire of the European Union, which has spoken out critically on the announcement, calling it "not acceptable". The three eastern European nations have banned grain products due to the cheap, tariff-free...

Poland has announced plans to transfer four MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets to neighboring Ukraine in the coming days. Polish President Andrzej Duda announced the plans to transfer the warplanes during a press conference on Thursday. The decision makes Poland the first NATO country to facilitate the transfer of combat aircraft...