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How populists remake Poland

Equality Parade 2018 | Photo: Lan Pham/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Liberals think that facts are persuasion. They are not – says Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse from Stanford University

Anna Gielewska

25.08.2020

Rally in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and the joint campaign headquarters. 30 July 2020, Minsk, Belarus || By Homoatrox - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

The week of protests has shown that the situation is completely different than the well-known crises of the past: the revolution of Solidarity in Poland, the Arab Spring, the Ukrainian Maidan.

VSquare

15.08.2020

Waste disposal site fire in Jastrzębie-Zdrój | KMP Jastrzębie

Changes in Polish law, introduced after critical wave of burning landfills in 2018, made illegal storage of waste more difficult, but old fraudulent schemes are still in place.

VSquare

13.08.2020

Drone footage, source: atlatszo.hu

In Almásfüzitő hazardous waste is being used to cover residue from a long-closed alumina factory.

VSquare

07.08.2020

Shutterstock/Sasun Bughdaryan

Independent, non-governmental watchdogs are always treated as an enemy by illiberal states and wannabe dictators. Viktor Orban’s Hungary is a classic example, but know a similar danger is growing in Poland.

Konrad Szczygieł

30.07.2020

index.hu

The most popular news site in Orbán’s Hungary was killed but the journalists keep on fighting

Szabolcs Panyi

26.07.2020

What happens to dead tigers that die young in suspicious circumstances in legal breeding farms? The disappear into thin air.

Konrad Szczygieł

16.07.2020

A memorial for Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová in Prešov, by Petinoh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

More than two years after shocking assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, another Slovak journalist from the same newsroom faces a death threat. Data analyst Peter Sabo found a pistol bullet in his mailbox – informs editor-in-chief of Aktuality.sk, Peter Bárdy.

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26.06.2020