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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

People visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Poland's ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics after ruling party uses it in political ad

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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FILE - Journalist Andrzej Poczobut stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Grodno, Belarus, on Jan. 16, 2023. Belarus' Supreme Court on Friday, May 26, 2023, upheld an eight-year prison sentence that was handed to a journalist and prominent member of the country's sizeable Polish minority as part of the government's sweeping, years-long crackdown on opposition figures, human rights activists and independent reporters. The Court rejected the appeal of Andrzej Poczobut, a 50-year-old reporter with Gazeta Wyborcza, an influential Polish newspaper.(Leonid Shcheglov/Pool via AP, File)

Belarus upholds 8-year prison sentence for journalist of top Polish newspaper

By Yuras Karmanau - 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 lawmakers approve contentious law targeting opposition

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris in her ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington, on April 11, 2023. Poland's ruling party is pushing for the creation of a commission which it says would investigate Russian influence. Morawiecki said that the commission was needed to verify the past and also remove any remaining Russian influence for the future. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Polish ruling party wants commission to investigate Russian influence; critics fear witch hunt

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela speaks during an interview in a cafe in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 17, 2023. Hamela has made a documentary film about Ukrainians fleeing war, "In the Rearview," which is being shown at the Cannes film festival but is not in competition. When Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela first began evacuating Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war on their country, he wasn't intending to make a film. He was one of the many Poles extending humanitarian aid to neighbors under attack. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

At Cannes, Polish filmmaker’s ‘In the Rearview’ spotlights Ukrainians escaping war

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

A woman stands near a mass grave and a monument in the village of Chlaniow, Poland, on June 19, 2013 that holds the bodies of Poles killed in a 1944 attack on the village by the Nazi SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion. Officials in Poland and Ukraine, staunch strategic partners, have unexpectedly exchanged bitter remarks regarding a painful mutual past that includes mass murder. Seeking to calm emotions, an aide to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Monday May 22, 2023 that the Poles only wanted the truth and respect for the tens of thousands of Polish victims. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) **FILE**

Strategic partners Poland and Ukraine spar over painful past

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Poland's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, center, walks during ceremony after receiving its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, at an air base in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, 15 May 2023. Poland has received its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, part of an upgrade of its defenses amid security concerns due to the war in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland gets 1st U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers amid concerns over war in Ukraine

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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A wreath placed by Russia's ambassador to Poland lies in front of an installation representing Russian crimes in Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday May 9, 2023. The one-day installation was set up by Ukrainian activists on the day when Russia celebrates the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. The large installation blocked the path of Russia's ambassador to Poland and prevented him from placing the wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukraine flags block Russian ambassador’s path on Victory Day

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

This file photo from May 12, 2015, shows Russian ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev during a news conference in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest Friday after a former Russian official suggested that it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland's ambassador to Russia. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) **FILE**

Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

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

Polish soldiers begin laying a razor wire barrier along Poland's border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in Wisztyniec, Poland, Wednesday Nov. 2, 2022. Poland's interior minister says a state-of-the-art electronic barrier is being built on land border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, which is also European Union frontier, to monitor and counteract any illegal activity. Minister Mariusz Kaminski said Tuesday, April 18, 2023 earthwork has begun for the barrier that will be equipped in 24-hour monitoring cameras and motion detectors. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc, File)

Poland building electronic barrier on border with Russia

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