The Russian release of Andrzej Wajda’s Oscar nommed pic “Katyn” has been put back for technical and political reasons, the Polish director said Wednesday. Wajda told Variety that plans to screen the ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – _ September 1939: World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland from the west, quickly followed by the Soviet invasion from the east. The carving up of Poland results ...

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(Reuters) - Poland marks the first anniversary on Sunday of a plane crash that killed its president and 95 others as they headed to the Katyn forest in western Russia to honour Polish officers ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Monday it was incompetent to judge whether Russia's investigation into the 1940 Katyn killings of Polish war prisoners was insufficient.

In a move that takes it one step closer to easing its long-running tensions with Poland, Russia on Wednesday, April 28, posted online for the first time its files on the Soviet Union’s World War II ...

In Washington last week, a special House committee resumed the investigation it began last fall into the wartime massacre of more than 4,000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia (TIME ...

The chilling finale to Poland’s 1939 tragedy is revealed: the mass execution and deportation of its citizens and leaders. After dividing Poland with Hitler, Stalin’s NKVD launched a campaign of ...

The lower house, the State Duma, agreed a text that breaks several years of official reluctance to admit that Stalin and the Soviet leadership ordered the killing of thousands of Polish officers in ...