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WARSAW, Poland - A Polish magazine has called on its readers to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a picture postcard depicting him as the long-nosed lying fairy tale character Pinocchio for presenting a "Stalinist version of history." The Wprost weekly campaign comes amid a rise of anti-Russian sentiment in Poland, which was most recently stoked by Putin's May 9 Red Square speech marking the end of World War II in Europe, in which he failed to condemn the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland as many had hoped. In response, this week's issue of the magazine comes with a pre-addressed postcard...

Ambassador lashed out at Lithuanians VILNIUS – Russia’s Ambassador Boris Cepov lashed out at Lithuania in an interview, saying it isn’t a country but a rally of brawlers who like to badmouth one another. “Many decisions are followed by scandals and a bad atmosphere – someone has eavesdropped, squealed on someone else. I have a feeling that this is not a country but a place for rally of scandal-living brawlers,” he was quoted as saying in an interview with the daily Respublika.

Physicists reveal flaw in EU Constitution As Britain prepares to make its mind up over the proposed European Constitution, Physics World reveals new research by physicists in Poland that claims the most controversial aspect of the new constitution, the voting rules at the EU Council of Ministers, are fatally flawed and will give some countries unfair clout in the decision-making process. Karol Zyczkowski and Wojciech Slomczynski, physicists from the Jagielonian University in Krakow, have used existing techniques in game theory to calculate how much power each country will have if the new constitution is adopted i.e. what their ability to...