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See the movie of the Polish pilots from the 22 Tactical Air Base (22 BLT) in Malbork flying Mig 29 Fulcrum. Really cool in my opinion. When I see such movies - I wish I was a pilot :-) Fulcrum Drivers 22BLT

Why Poland Loves Ukraine ... For Now MARCH 28, 2014 Slawomir Sierakowski Eastern Europe, which beginning with Poland is celebrating its 25th anniversary of freedom from Communism, has suddenly awakened from a beautiful dream about the end of history. No less an authority than Adam Michnik, the legendary Polish anti-Communist dissident, recently announced that 2014 marks the end of the best period in Poland’s history in three centuries. We are entering uncertain times: In contrast to Eastern Europe’s foray into independence after World War I, no close intraregional alliances were formed in the aftermath of 1989; rather, each country placed...

Polish Defence Ministry decided recently to continue a service of 32 Su-22M4/UM3K attack aircrafts used by the 21st Tactical Air Base in Swidwin. The variant of a service longer than 3 or 10 years (until to 2025 years) is considered. This is related with the technical modernization of the Polish Air Force. The reason was a current in the fall of 2013 plan for the withdrawal of all Su-22 until 2015. Not so long ago, in the Technical Modernisation Plan for the years 2013-2022 there was a record for the modernization of airport in Åšwidwin and the purchase of 16...

Russia’s strategy in the Ukrainian crisis Analyses 2014-03-05 Marek Menkiszak The toppling of the Yanukovych regime and the taking over of power in Ukraine by the opposition were a strategic defeat for Russia, whose aim had been to permanently block the process of Ukraine’s European integration and make the country part of Russia's own integration project, the Eurasian Union. It also delivered a blow to the image of president Putin as an effective leader. After the failed attempt at creating, with Russian political support, an alternative centre of power in Kharkiv that would represent the eastern and southern regions of...

17.42 Poland's defence ministry has confirmed that the US military will send 12 F-16 fighter jets and 300 service personnel to Poland next week for a training exercise whose scope was expanded in response to the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine. Tomasz Siemoniak said the training exercise, centred on the Lask air force base in central Poland, was originally to have been smaller and involved only transport aircraft. He said Poland requested it be beefed up after Russia's intervention in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula.

Poland could handle being cut off from Russian supplies of natural gas by turning to other sources and improving domestic infrastructure, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday. "The current gas reserves and the fact that winter is coming to an end allow us to say that Poland is no longer vulnerable to possible gas sanctions on the part of our neighbour to the east," Tusk told parliament. The EU country of 38 million currently imports 10.5 billion cubic metres of gas from Russia each year, about two-thirds of its demand. Starting next month, Poland's imports "from alternative sources to the...

As the Putin regime invades Ukraine, it has become apparent that a new force for evil has emerged in Moscow. It is essential that Americans become aware of the nature of the threat. Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate. Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as “Eurasianism.” The roots of Eurasianism go back to czarist émigrés interacting with fascist thinkers in...

Cold war spy Kuklinski movie premieres in Warsaw 05.02.2014 09:10 President Bronislaw Komorowski has heaped praise on a new movie about a Polish colonel who defected to the CIA in 1972, saying the hero of the film deserves to be honoured by Poland. “This film, thanks to wonderful acting, and a script that's rooted in real history, will always make a tremendous impression,” Komorowski said at the premiere of Jack Strong in Warsaw. “It's an extraordinary film about an extraordinary man,” he added. The movie follows the career of the late Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski (pseudonym Jack Strong), who handed thousands...

U.S. Ambassador to Poland Stephen Mull and all the American and Polish staff at the United States Embassy in Warsaw wish you Happy Holidays and a Joyous New Year! MOVIE

For the first time in the history of the mission – two soldiers of the Polish Military Contitgent in Afghanistan got married. Joanna and Piotr have taken their wedding oath in the Polish Embassy in Kabul. Joanna graduated from the Polish Air Force Academy and for several years has been serving in Polish Armed Forces as a helicopter pilot. Piotr has also been serving in Polish Special Forces for several years. This is his fifth deployment to Afghanistan, altogether he’s spent 2,5 years out there. He’s a special force operator, one of the most experienced Joint Terminal Attack Controller within...

Five Polish soldiers killed by Afghanistan bomb A roadside bomb has killed five Polish soldiers in a Nato convoy in eastern Afghanistan, Poland's heaviest single loss of life since the mission began. Polish media said the soldiers were a few miles from their base in Ghazni province when the bomb exploded. Three soldiers died at the scene. Another two were said to have died of their wounds at a military hospital. Poland has 2,500 troops in Afghanistan who are responsible for handling security in Ghazni. The soldiers were part of a provincial reconstruction team, according to Polish reports, who were...

Seven Polish soldiers found innocent in Afghanistan war crimes case Jun 1, 2011, Warsaw - Seven Polish soldiers accused of war crimes in Afghanistan were ruled innocent by a military district court in Warsaw, the first case regarding violations of the Hague and Geneva conventions in Polish history. The prosecutors had not gathered enough evidence to find the men guilty of war crimes, the court ruled. Prosecutors had sought between five to 12 years for the soldiers, saying the villagers in Nangar Khel, south-eastern Afghanistan, posed no threat and that the soldiers knowingly fired into buildings that contained civilians. Six...

Obama arrives in Warsaw; Polish Jews urge him to support Israel By Scott Wilson, Published: May 27 WARSAW — Within hours of arriving Friday in this once-occupied capital, President Obama encountered the enduring emotion surrounding the state of Israel, founded as a sanctuary from the virulent anti-Semitism that wiped out much of this nation’s Jewish population during World War II. As his first stop in a two-day visit, Obama visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, then traveled to the Ghetto Heroes Memorial, where he laid a wreath at the base of the stark bronze relief commemorating the tens of...

Lech Walesa refuses meeting with Barack Obama de A.C. HotNews.ro Vineri, 27 mai 2011, 18:41 English | Regional Europe Lech Walesa, former leader of the Solidarity union, former President of Poland and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983 declared on Friday that he will not accept the invitation to meet with President Barack Obama, AFP reads. Walesa was due to meet the US President on Saturday. It is tough to tell journalists what you would want to tell the President of a super power but this time I will not tell him, I will not meet him,...

Poland honours Senator McCain 02.03.2011 08:14 Former US presidential candidate Senator John McCain (right) was awarded with Poland’s Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Merit by Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski in Washington, Tuesday, for his extraordinary contribution to Polish-US relations. The republican senator was given the honours at the Atlantic Council's annual Bronislaw Geremek Lecture, named after a former foreign minister of Poland who died in a road accident in 2008. McCain was one of the US’s strongest supporters of Poland’s eventually successful bid to join NATO in the 1990s. "I am honoured and moved,” McCain said...

Polish-Israeli Government Meeting Angers Palestine Supporters By Marcin Sobczyk The Polish and Israeli governments held a top-level meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss issues ranging from education to military cooperation. Groups of Palestine supporters who refuse to recognize the State of Israel protest against the meeting and the choice of the venue. Poland-based “Campaign of Solidarity with Palestine” dressed the fake palm tree standing at a busy Warsaw roundabout in a keffiyeh in protest. “It’s a bad moment for a meeting like that,” Przemyslaw Wielgosz, the campaign’s activist, said according to daily Rzeczpospolita. “Most importantly, the issue...

Polish PM: We cannot pretend Iran is normal 02.24.11, 12:59 / Israel News Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that "we cannot pretend Iran's policies are normal and that terrorists are freedom fighters". At a meeting between members of his government and that of Israel he added Poland would not "pretend in the face of those who deny Israel's existence".

Israeli Academics Call Poland to Boycott Israeli-Made Weapons by Elad Benari On Tuesday, as the Knesset debated a law against boycotts on Israel, a group of radical left Israeli academics turned to the government of Poland (the incoming president of the European Union) and demanded action against what they termed the “crimes of the occupation” perpetrated by Israel. The group is headed by Professor Rachel Giora of Tel Aviv University and is demanding that Poland cancel a cooperation agreement with Israel over production of the Spike missile, which they claim Israeli directs against civilians. The group members are also calling...

Poland defends Israel’s right to exist 24.02.2011 12:20 Following a rocket attack fired into Israel from Gaza, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, currently on a two-day visit to Jerusalem, said that "[Poland is] not prepared to allow anyone to deny the existence of Israel. Poland will not let these things happen." The rocket, the first to be fired into Israel from Gaza since 2009, hit a house in Beersheba in the Nagev desert on Wednesday. The missile attack came hours after an Israeli tank fired into Gaza, killing one person. The Polish PM told Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at a...

French more anti-capitalist than the Chinese - poll PARIS (Reuters) - The French are more opposed to free market capitalism than the inhabitants of Communist China and other advanced economies, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed. The survey by pollster IFOP published in La Croix newspaper showed that 33 percent of French people believe it is time to abandon capitalism, the highest proportion among the 10 countries surveyed. In China, which is ruled by the Communist Party but has embraced its own brand of capitalism, just 3 percent of those questioned thought that the market system was working badly....