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SOFIA The Russian embassy in Bulgaria reacted sharply against criticism by a US diplomat in Sofia about corruption in the country. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY Minister: Detachment from NATO would widen divisions in the EU. Any attempt to distance the European Union from NATO would only deepen the divisions among EU member states, Portugal’s defence minister, João Gomes Cravinho, has said, arguing instead that the mechanisms of cooperation between the two partners should be improved. Read t...

The daughter of former Warsaw Zoo directors Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust by hiding them at the zoo and whose story was told in the Hollywood movie “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” has died. The zoo says on its Facebook page that Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki died Saturday night, at age 77. It does not give the cause of her death. “She always talked with pride about her parents and their heroism,” the zoo says. It says that after having lived in Denmark, s...

Keith Lowe’s “Prisoners of History” examines how different countries’ statues and museums about the war resonate today.

New book presents an impressive collection of portraits of models photographed by Zosia Prominska. Future Perfect by Zosia Prominska. Hardcover | 19,5 x 24,5 cm | 120 pages | 75 color ills. | English | ISBN 978-3-96900-006-9 | Euro 30,00. NEW YORK, NY .- The book Future Perfect is an impressive collection of portraits of prepubescent models photographed by Zosia Prominska. Staged carefully within the intimate confines of their bedrooms and surrounded by the small details reflecting their teenag...

Consumer trust in the food sector has increased over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from EIT Food can reveal. A study of 20 000 consumers across 18 European countries reveals trust in the food sector has increased over the course of 2020, yet the majority of consumers don’t consider the sector to be working in the public interest. The EIT Food Trust Report surveyed 19 800 consumers from 18 European countries to measure trust in the food system and confidence in food...

(JTA) — This year we celebrated Passover early, on a Sunday a few days before St. Patrick’s Day. My adult children will disperse before the official holiday, but with the darkest days of the pandemic behind us, we have much to celebrate.

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read WARSAW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Poland has found its first case of COVID-19 in mink, the agriculture ministry said, raising fears of costly culls in an industry that counts over 350 farms in the country. With new variants of the coronavirus threatening global efforts to get the pandemic under control, authorities in several countries have begun mass culls of the animals due to fears of a mutated strain of the illness being transmitted to humans. Late on Sunday the ministry...

Baltics preparing for the day after in Minsk and Moscow – opinion 58 Moscow / AP Smaller EU countries are punching above their weight in defending values and supporting pro-democracy forces in the EU’s neighbourhood. They are preparing for the day after in Minsk and Moscow, writes Judy Dempsey at Carnegie Europe think tank. He didn’t waste time. As soon as Poland joined the European Union in May 2004, then Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski made a passionate plea for Ukraine and Tur...

1.02.2021, 9:28 The process is underway: the peoples patience is about to end. The defence of the national flag has become the key leitmotif of the Belarusian protests. Belarusians hang out dozens of white-red-white flags, go to rallies with national symbols, participate in various flash mobs. Experts argue that any attempt to slander the national flag will play a cruel joke on the regime and bear a reverse effect. The readers of Charter97.org think the same way. "We can say that every normal...

20,524 shares In this photo dated March 7, 2017, Teresa Zabinska, the daughter of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, prior to the gala screening of The Zookeepers Wife movie (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE) WARSAW — The daughter of former Warsaw Zoo directors Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust by hiding them at the zoo and whose story was told in the Hollywood movie “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” has died. The zoo said on its Facebook Sunday that Teresa Zabinsk...