WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh censorship, not ...

A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour, with its citizens earning a tenth of West German wages. Today, its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest, boasting ...

A month ago, chuckling gleefully over the U.S. recession, Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev trotted out a timeworn Communist taunt: “Unemployment is the inevitable companion of capitalism.” Last week, in the ...

WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - The once-powerful mouthpiece of Poland's communist party fell silent on Monday, bowing to the demands of the free market 20 years after the advent of democracy in eastern ...

SOPOT, Poland (Reuters) - When Jacek Krawczyk was growing up in then-communist Poland, the government was happy to train him in karate and acrobatics. He did not imagine that one day he would become a ...

WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh ...

POZNAN, Poland (AP) — A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the ...