The Ukrainian offensive in Kursk Oblast began on August 6, 2024, and was a surprising step for both the Russians and Ukraine's allies. It was the largest operation conducted by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russian territory since the beginning of the war.

How is it possible that a country that in the 1980s had a public debt of 150 percent of GDP and unemployment of 17 percent, became the economic tiger of Europe? It owes this to effective and efficient work with its diaspora.

It was a symbol of the power of the Order of the Hospital of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the German House in Jerusalem. For a century and a half, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and the highest authorities of the order lived there. It was also the seat of German emperors and Polish kings. Destroyed and rebuilt many times, for centuries it has been a wonderful example of design thought and a hero of glorious and inglorious events in our history.

his summer is not just a time of rest, on the contrary, it is a time of important political, economic and military events. The comments on the first speeches of the members of the new European Parliament have not yet died down, and everyone is already seized by the fever of the conventions of political parties in the United States.

The life of Felix Paul Wierzbicki (1815-1860) is a remarkable tale of resilience, patriotism, and diverse accomplishments. Born in Volhynia, Ukraine, he abandoned his initial pursuit of medicine to join the November Uprising in 1830-1831, actively participating in pivotal battles for Polish independence. Forced into internment and later exile, he immigrated to the United States, leaving an indelible mark on various fields.

Today, Poland is a key country on NATO’s eastern flank, a defender of the EU’s eastern borders and a haven for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have fled Russian aggression.

On August 14, 1982, in the prison in Kwidzyn, the militia and prison guards carried out a brutal pacification of the internment camp for "Solidarity" activists. As a result, over 80 internees were beaten, almost half of them suffered serious injuries.

He was supposed to be a military man, but the uniform was not his calling. He discovered and introduced to the world some 60 unknown species of flora and fauna. Georgians owe him a unique national park and remember that he was responsible for the creation of what was then Russia's first nature reserve. In Poland, however, Ludwik Młokosiewicz remains completely unknown.

August 16 marks the 119th anniversary of the birth of Marian Rejewski, an outstanding Polish cryptologist from Bydgoszcz. Within a few weeks, Rejewski had single-handedly achieved what cryptologists from France and England had been unable to do for many years.

The Ładoś Group, which illegally issued Latin American passports to Jews in German-occupied Europe, was the Polish Noah's Ark, saving them from extermination – said Roger Moorhouse, a British historian, author of the book "The Forgers".

We now move to the 20th century and examine the efforts of Roman Dmowski and Marshall Jozef Pilsudski as they attempt to establish an independent Poland while maintaining pragmatic relations with Russia.

The Polish American Congress (PAC, Kongres Polonii Amerykańskiej, KPA) was the largest Polish organization in the world. It was founded in June 1944 in Buffalo, New York. Over 2,500 Polish activists and Polish priests from 26 states participated in the founding meeting.

Melchior Wańkowicz - a writer called the father of Polish reportage - is a figure with a biography as rich and full of twists and turns as the 20th century in which he lived. Thanks to his reportages, the Battle of Monte Cassino shaped the identity and imagination of Poles, and the diversity of his activities meant that he was always close to ordinary people.

Although the waters of Poland's fourth-largest river have marked borders for centuries, it is believed that the Bug River unites Poland, Ukraine and Belarus into one cultural whole, rather than dividing them. It is one of the few major European rivers that is not regulated, and its green banks are a mile-long nature reserve and wildlife sanctuary.

In this scholarly work, "Poland and Russia: The Neighborhood of Freedom and Despotism in the X-XXI Centuries," Professor Andrzej Nowak reviews the history of Poland through the lens of its relations with Russia and presents the ideological beliefs Russia employed throughout its history to achieve its foreign policy objectives through interactions with Poland and the region’s Central and Eastern European states.

Built in relation to the numbers in the calendar, it had 365 windows, 52 chambers, 12 great halls and 4 towers. Its ballroom had a glass ceiling with an aquarium and the horses in the stables ate from marble troughs. Although its construction consumed unimaginable amounts of materials and funds, it remained in full bloom and splendor for only 11 years before it was destroyed by the Swedes. Today it is the most beautiful ruin in Poland.

Opatow Silica, an archaeological reserve in the Swietokrzyskie Province, is the only such place in the world where relics of an underground striped flint mine, exploited mainly in the Neolithic era, have been preserved.

This monument was not created out of a desire for revenge, but in memoriam. The monument in honor of the victims of the Volhynian Massacre was ceremonially unveiled on July 14, 2024 in the town of Domostawa, in the Jarocin commune, in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship...

His construction of the bullet-proof vest and the telectroscope placed him in the first row of the most outstanding inventors of the 20th century. He left behind innovations confirmed by more than a hundred patents. Called the 'Edison of Galicia', Jan Szczepanik divided his life between Tarnów and Vienna.

According to a legend, the mouth of the Dunajec River was cut out with a sword by King Bolesław the Brave himself. Centuries ago, there was also a story about Ferkowicz, who hunted the king of snakes and, on his escape, made way for the river by tilting the gorge. The Dunajec, with a length of 247 km, offers us many wonderful places and views, but the gorge that starts at the Three Crowns (Trzy Korony) takes the first place.

Consultations between the Polish and German governments were held in Warsaw on July 1, 2024. The words of the German Chancellor, who announced support for survivors of the German occupation, caused the greatest resonance in social media.