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Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, on April 19, 2023. Poland's largest opposition party is leading a march Sunday, June 4, 2023, which is meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government which it accuses of eroding Poland's democracy and following Hungary and Turkey down an autocratic path. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, file)

Warsaw City Hall: Half a million people turn out to protest Poland’s right-wing government

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s president approves law on Russia’s influence that could target opposition

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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president seeks experts’ advice on contentious law targeting opposition

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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s lawmakers approve contentious law targeting opposition

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

People gather to watch a festive parade marking the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad, Russia's westernmost city, Friday, July 1, 2005. Poland's map authorities have advised the return to the historic name of Russia's neighbouring city and the administrative region of Kaliningrad, which is Krolewiec. The decision by a commission for geographic names abroad advising the reversal took effect this week, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)

Poland reverts to historic name Krolewiec for Russia’s Kaliningrad

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Anna Stupnicka-Bando, left, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, walks with Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, at a ceremony for the burial of a "time capsule" on the grounds of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday April 18, 2023. The time capsule contains memorabilia and a message to future generations. It was buried on the grounds of a former children's hospital, a building that will house the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, which is scheduled to open in three years. Tuesday's ceremony comes on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single Jewish revolt against German forces during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Holocaust survivor Tova Gutstein, 90, who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto as a child, poses for a photo at her apartment in the city of Rishon Lezion, Israel, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Gutstein was a child when the Nazis put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Now 90, she is one of the few remaining survivors who witnessed that act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany as Israel marks the revolt's 80th anniversary on Holocaust Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Warsaw Ghetto uprising survivor honored on 80th anniversary

By Ilan Ben Zion and Ami Ben Tov - Associated Press

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki leaves after an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, on March 24, 2023. Morawiecki flew Tuesday, April 11, to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense cooperation of the two nations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool, File)

Polish PM Morawiecki heads to U.S. to further strengthen defense ties

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Fencers compete in the men's individual semifinal Sabre competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 24, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. A fencing World Cup event in Poland has been canceled because the sport’s governing body decided last month to let Russians and Belarusians compete, it was announced Wednesday, April 5, 2023. The Polish Fencing Association says it will not host the Olympic qualifying event for women’s foil from April 21-23 in Poznan. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)

Poland scraps fencing event because of Russian participation

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Britain's Prince William arrives to lay a wreath of flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Prince William thanks Poland for generosity to Ukrainians

By Vanessa Gera and Danica Kirka - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during an interview after meeting U.S. President Joe Biden and the Bucharest Nine leaders in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden held talks with leaders from the Bucharest Nine, a collection of nations on the most eastern parts of the NATO alliance that came together in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

NATO chief sees ‘some signs’ China could back Russia’s war

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Polish President Andrzej Duda, right, welcomes President Joe Biden at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Biden is visiting Poland a day after an unannounced visit to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that comes days before the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Biden meets with Poland leader, set to speak on Ukraine war

By Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

President Vladimir Putin speaks in his annual televised New Year's message after a ceremony during a visit to the headquarters of the Southern Military District, at an unknown location in Russia, Dec. 31, 2022. American and allied sanctions and export controls are constraining Russia’s ability to wage war on Ukraine by degrading its military, a top Treasury Department official says. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

In dueling speeches, Putin and Biden offer radically different visions of the fight to come

By Jeff Mordock and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks before the screening of the movie "Till" in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. The movie, "Till," is the story of Mamie Till-Mobley who pursued justice after the lynching of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, in 1955. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to rally behind Ukraine in trip to NATO’s eastern flank as support softens on home front

By Joseph Clark and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Patriot missile launchers acquired from the U.S. last year are seen deployed in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Poland deploys Patriot batteries to capital city, Warsaw

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A Leopard 2 tank is pictured during a demonstration event held for the media by the German Bundeswehr in Munster near Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Poland will apply to the German government for permission to supply the German-made Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Poland pushes for more tanks for Ukraine, asks for German OK

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev during their meeting on sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Despite threats, Putin knows tactical nukes would be ‘suicidal,’ Poland’s envoy says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, lit by the evening sun in Lubmin, Germany, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline leading from Russia to Europe has reported a drop in pressure, only hours after a leak was reported in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea off Denmark, the German economy ministry said late Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Leaks on Russian gas pipelines raise concerns about sabotage

By Monika Scislowska and Jan M. Olsen and David Keyton - Associated Press

Singer Sting performs during a concert with singer Shaggy, as part of their 'The 44/876' tour in Panama City, Oct. 19, 2018. British musician Sting has interrupted a concert in Warsaw to warn his audience that democracy is under attack worldwide. He also denounced the war in Ukraine as “an absurdity based upon a lie.” Sting asked a popular Polish actor to join him onstage to translate his appeal that democracy is worth fighting for despite it being messy and frustrating at times “because the alternative to democracy is a nightmare.” (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Sting warns during Warsaw concert of threats to democracy

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People take part in the Equality Parade, the largest gay pride parade in central and eastern Europe, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday June 19, 2021. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

With war, Kyiv pride parade becomes a peace march in Warsaw

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press