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He paid youths to attend his speech and clap. He championed laws to silence critical journalists. He rammed through a constitution aimed at remaking Hungary on conservative Christian values.
When Czech playwright Vaclav Havel was thrown in prison for his anti-communist writings, life for people across the East Bloc was shaped by the soul-crushing repression of rigged elections, tapped phones and isolation behind the Iron Curtain.
As Nazi troops imposed their terror on Warsaw, an 18-year-old Polish girl slipped into a Warsaw church with an elderly rabbi to teach him how to dip his hand in holy water and cross himself.
Of all the twists in Europe's debt crisis one of the oddest must be this: Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans, long the recipients of massive amounts of Western aid, are being asked to contribute to an emergency fund for indebted Western European states.
Dr. Salem al-Farjani secretly recorded details about the dead filling his Tripoli hospital during Libya's civil war, knowing the search for them would one day come.
Poland's central bank kept its main interest rate unchanged at 4.5 percent Wednesday as it balances a worsening economic outlook with high inflation.
Poland's newly re-elected prime minister said Friday that he will raise the retirement age to 67 as he announced a series of far-reaching measures aimed at bringing down public debt.
Polish prosecutors have filed criminal charges against 46 people suspected of attacking police during Independence Day marches in Warsaw.
A surprise in Poland's election campaign has been the quick rise of a left-wing party that supports gay rights, liberalizing abortion laws, and the greater separation of church and state — a sign of growing secularization in this conservative, Roman Catholic country.
Poland's centrist ruling party was campaigning hard to maintain its lead before weekend elections, fending off challenges from a new socially liberal party and a traditional rival that has accused it of responsibility for a plane crash that killed a generation of top politicians.
Poland's economy grew 4.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, a slight slowdown over previous quarters but still one of the strongest growth rates in Europe.
Poland's prosecutor general announced the dismissal Tuesday of two officials who played a role in giving Belarus financial data about a leading human rights activist — information that resulted in his arrest.
Officials said Tuesday that they have opened an investigation into a Polish chemist after he admitted supplying chemicals that the Norway massacre suspect used in bomb-making.
Warsaw and Prague might seem like unlikely battlegrounds in the Middle East conflict. Yet it suddenly matters — a lot — whether Poles, Czechs and others in the region align themselves with the Israelis or Palestinians.
President Barack Obama on Friday honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis, telling one elderly man that the memorial was a "reminder of the nightmare" of the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were killed.
They slept in the aisles and celebrated Mass in the restaurant car.
Poles are already calling him John Paul the Great.
Fanciful turrets flank the thick fortress walls. A cannon sits in the courtyard.
Before the Nazis arrived, Maurice Deluty's life followed a rhythm familiar to so many Jews in small Polish towns. His father, a grain merchant, would stop work before dusk on Fridays to observe the Sabbath with his family, sitting down to a meal prepared on a wood-burning iron stove, the matzo bought from a bakery in their small town near Warsaw.
Jewish leaders and foreign dignitaries have gathered to celebrate the reopening of an important Renaissance synagogue in Poland.
The number of North African migrants trying to reach Europe has fallen significantly in the past few days because of choppy seas and stronger law enforcement in Tunisia, the head of the European Union's border control agency said Friday.
Poles are fuming over a Russian aviation official's remark that even if a chimpanzee had been running the control tower the day their president's plane crashed in Russia the disaster would still be entirely their fault.
The red brick barracks that housed starving inmates are sinking into ruin. Time has warped victims' leather shoes into strange shapes. Human hair sheared to make cloth is slowly turning to dust.
Poland's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low of 3.5 percent on Tuesday for the 17th consecutive month, in line with market expectations, to avoid a sharp appreciation in the currency.
Poles voted Sunday in local elections that appeared to reward the government's go-slow approach in trimming the welfare state in the EU's largest new member — the only one in Europe to avoid a recession.
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