“While it is undeniable that Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan is less paranoid, much freer and tolerant than Karimov’s… the very nature of the system remains unchanged.”
In 2021, a young woman came to a hospital in eastern Poland to get an abortion: she was suffering from severe mental distress because the fetus she was carrying had the lethal defect anencephaly. The case of Agata, whose surname is not publicly known, exemplifies what Poland's liberal opposition sees as an erosion of women's rights during the eight-year rule of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. Agata later obtained an abortion elsewhere, according to activists who helped her, but her plight resonates with many ahead of Sunday's election in which women's rights have emerged as a key campaign issue.
WARSAW -Poland s government has written to the European Union s security commissioner alleging that a cash-for-visas scandal is an exaggerated media fact timed to discredit the ruling nationalists in. -September 22, 2023 at 07:20 am EDT
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Poland, with election looming, says it isn t sending new arms to Ukraine reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Poland's move last week to ban Ukraine grain imports illustrates a wider dilemma the ruling nationalists face ahead of a tight election in October: how to counter pressure from the far-right over Warsaw's approach to helping Kyiv in its war with Russia. With the likely outcome of the Oct. 15 ballot far from clear, Ukraine has emerged as a topic on which the far-right Confederation can steal votes from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, lowering its chances of winning a functioning majority by splitting right-of-centre Poles. Confederation has sought to capitalise on a growing weariness with Ukrainian refugees among some Poles who feel the government has gone too far in extending social benefits and other aid to those fleeing the war as well as on anger among farmers who say Ukrainian grain imports hurt their prices.