This video clip, released by the EU to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the iron curtain, has prompted a furious response from Poland. Read more...

Our Observer Marcin Smietana is attending a Polish festival devoted to French music.

Avant-garde music, Second Life and Oscar Schindler's museum - Poland's sixth edition of the Sacrum Profanum music festival came to Krakow last weekend, and brought German electronic giants Kraftwerk with it. Our Observer went to the festival. Read more and see the videos...

A photomontage circulating on russian blogs.The crater is on Poland.

The Georgian War and the subsequent missile defense deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic have stirred up Russian bloggers. Many vent their frustration through hawkish comments and nostalgia of Soviet military might. Read more...

Poland's political community has been thrown into turmoil over allegations that the country's former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa collaborated with the Communist-era secret police and spent years trying to cover it up. Read more...

Neither Christmas nor New Year alleviated the situation. Miners from Budryk, Silésie, in south-west Poland, have reached their twenty-second day of strike without disruption. The movement, which began over-ground, has now taken refuge under the soil. This weekend there were almost five-hundred gathered at the bottom of the mine demanding higher wages. Our Observer in Poland has helped us to decipher the conflict. We're also publishing a commentary from one of the leaders of the strike, who says he's asking for only to be paid the same as other miners in Poland. Read more...