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This is not the first time that the President of Russia is attempting to revive the Stalinist vision of modern history. It was created in the communist era by combining selective interpretations of facts, half-truths and propaganda. An image alternative to reality was constructed. The totalitarian Soviet Union was presented as a country of good intentions, a defender of peace and the security of nations, a noble conqueror of the German Reich. This kind of false vision of history was imposed as binding not only in the USSR but also in other countries enslaved by Moscow following World War II. At that time, revealing the truth about the actual role of the USSR in the history of the continent, about enslaving the people of Central and Eastern Europe, about Soviet crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was threatened with severe repression. It is surprising that today, in a free world, the Russian President is trying to promote theses which are almost a literal copy of the propaganda dating back to the era of Stalin and Brezhnev. He does so, in an article appearing in The National Interest.

The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) is pleased to announce the NAWA Chair programme. The objective of the NAWA Chair programme is to support the highest quality scientific and research as well as didactic activities conducted by Polish academic and scientific units by including world-class foreign scientists in these activities.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs announces a contest for the best foreign language publication promoting the history of Poland and the best Polish language publication on the history of Polish diplomacy. The contest welcomes works which were published in 2019. Historians can submit their works until 31 August 2020.

Temporary limitations of border traffic, enforced due to the COVID 19 pandemic, consist in the limitation of incoming passenger traffic at border crossing points of the Republic of Poland, to the following categories of persons, i.a.:

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mr. Mateusz Morawiecki gave an interview on 26 May 2020 to the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in which the issues of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy and cooperation in the EU, the topic of presidential elections and matters concerning reform of the justice system in Poland were discussed. We kindly invite you to read the fragments of the interview.

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is building in virtual space an interactive garden inspired by the work of Krzysztof Penderecki. "Penderecki’s Garden" will fully flourish in November, but users can now watch the project growing.

Seventy five years after the end of the Second World War, we pay tribute to its victims. We remember the indomitable struggle of the Polish nation against Nazi Germany throughout the conflict in Europe, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945.

On the day of the anniversary of the WWII ending, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki emphasizes the need to preserve historical memory, the truth and an appropriate worship of the victims in the interview for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa .

Adopted on 3 May 1791 in Warsaw by the Sejm of the Polish Republic (later known as the Great Sejm), the Polish Constitution was Europe’s first and the world’s second modern constitution.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pleads in his guest contribution “A new balance for Europe” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for a rescue plan for business and healthcare, and explains why the European Union needs solidarity in coronavirus crisis.