Kieran Culkin wins an Oscar for a Supporting Role in „A Real Pain”, a film about Poland
Kieran Culkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In Jesse Eisebnerg’s movie Real Pain, about cousins who decide to visit Poland for the first time, you can watch his performance and appreciate the beautiful Polish landscapes. For the 42-year-old Culkin, it was the first Oscar nomination of his career. The “Real Pain” may […]
PM Tusk: Ukraine requires help before peace negotiations, Europe must share defence policy with US
Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits London for a political summit on the security of Europe and the war in Ukraine. The informal meeting of a dozen European leaders will focus on security and defence issues in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine. After the meeting, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced new support […]
Forbes: All 100 richest Poles are now billionaires
In a new, historic Forbes ranking of the 100 richest Poles, all of those listed reached a wealth of more than PLN 1 bn (at least £ 198,880,000). It is the first such situation in Polish history, and now the number of billionaires in Poland has reached 107 people. The combined wealth of the one […]
Helena Modrzejewska w londyńskim salonie 1880
Helena Modrzejewska – legenda, wybitna indywidualność, aktorka dwóch kontynentów, uosobienie wielkiego sukcesu, altruistka, patriotka, animatorka życia kulturalnego i społecznego, ikona mody. Inteligentna, piękna, pracowita, wielostronnie utalentowana, wrażliwa, odważna, konsekwentnie i nieustannie kreująca swój wizerunek artystki i kobiety samodzielnej w małżeństwie partnerskim. Troskliwa matka, babcia i ciotka. Fenomen, który inspiruje i zachwyca. Wytrwale i systematycznie realizowała swoje największe […]
The Cursed Soldiers – Poland’s post-war anti-communist underground fighters for independence
The Cursed Soldiers, a wide group of Polish partisans from all wartime organisations who remained on their posts after the fall of the Third Reich, symbolise resistance to the new Soviet occupation brought to Poland by the Yalta and Potsdam agreements between the Allies. They continued their desperate battle for Poland’s freedom into the 1960s […]
Trump, Vance clash with Zelensky and praise Poland for defence spending
During a heated argument between the President and vice-president of the US and Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump answered several questions from reporters, including Marek Walkuski of Polish Radio, who asked him about his country’s commitment to the support of Poland and NATO’s eastern flank. The US President assured he stays deeply committed to […]
Anna Smoleńska – the designer of the „Fighting Poland” sign, killed in Auschwitz
She was born on 28 February 1920 in Warsaw. She served in the Grey Ranks underground scout organisation and was the designer of the Anchor, the symbol of Fighting Poland and the Polish underground Home Army during the 2nd World War. Arrested by the Germans in the autumn of 1942, she was sent to the […]
Józef Unrug — the hero of the Polish September campaign of 1939
Józef Unrug was born on 7 October 1884 in Brandenburg, near Berlin, to a family cultivating Polish military traditions dating back to at least the 16th century, when the ancestor of the noble family Unruh (Unrug), Krzysztof I, received a Polish noble title and settled in Greater Poland. Joseph continued the family military tradition. His […]
Polak z wyboru – kontradmirał Józef Unrug, dowódca Marynarki Wojennej II RP w latach 1925-1939
Żołnierz, który był Polakiem z wyboru. Był jednym z twórców Marynarki Wojennej II RP, w 1939 r. niezłomnym obrońcą polskiego Wybrzeża. Zaraz po kapitulacji otrzymał propozycję służby w niemieckiej flocie, ale z niej nie skorzystał. Choć doskonale znał język wroga, ku zdumieniu parlamentariuszy, zażądał tłumacza. To wtedy wypowiedział pamiętne słowa: „1 września zapomniałem, jak się […]
Portrety Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w National Portrait Gallery w Londynie
Portrety Stanisława Wyspiańskiego po raz pierwszy w Wielkiej Brytanii! Wystawa szesnastu najwybitniejszych portretów artysty zostanie zorganizowana już w marcu w National Portrait Gallery w Londynie. Wiele z tych dzieł nigdy nie było pokazywanych poza Polską. Ekspozycja zostanie otwarta 27 marca i potrwa do 13 lipca 2025 r. Wystawa to efekt działań National Portrait Gallery w Londynie we […]
