The Trojkast (formerly Gdańsk News)

English-language news and reviews from Trójmiasto (Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot), with guest appearances by Poland and other CEE, EE, and EU actors.

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@ScholarshipfPhd English FTW

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After years of complaints by business owners and foreigners that the residency process at the Pomeranian Urząd Wojewódzki was excessively slow and arbitrary…an investigation has uncovered several officials taking bribes to “expedite” the process.

https://t.co/vEWTLBvRO8

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https://t.co/7Ub6lRmKxs via @NYTimes

[Christopher Lash @ChrisLashHist]

IDF firing on UNIFIL locations in South Lebanon. Polish soldiers are also part of this mission.

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Discovered an active Facebook group with 23K members dedicated solely to gathering and identifying mushrooms in and around Gdańsk.

The Polish (Slavic?) is strong with these ones: https://t.co/bsdo15DxkP

[Nic Houghton @40PercentGerman]

Today is Tag der Deutschen Einheit in Germany, the national holiday in honour of German reunification.

It's also the day we celebrate David Hasselhoff single-handedly bringing down the Berlin Wall by singing "Looking for Freedom" atop a cherry picker.

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@steven_seegel Seeing what happened in Springfield after comments by Trump and Vance, perhaps they didn’t want to provide a highly visible platform for more disinformation?

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, changes their identities and their names. How does that differ from the Nazis who kidnapped Russian and Polish children for the same purpose?

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@steven_seegel @20DaysMariupol @mstyslavchernov @Liberov I hope you also urged your students to make sure they are registered to vote…

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

This is Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic Margaret Eleanor Atwood, author of the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale", supporting Ukraine at a rally in Toronto (2022).

Thank you Margaret. Thank you Canada! 🌻🇨🇦

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The true test of your integration programs- if three foreign nationals choose (and are able to) communicate in the host language (in this case Polish) as it is the common shared language among them.

[Steven Seegel 🇺🇦 @stevenseegel.bsky.social @steven_seegel]

My course books and some source books for 2024/25. I’ll be adding items by @EricaMarat @OKhromeychuk @BotakozKassymb1. I wish someone would put together “The Ukraine Reader” for undergrad students. Don’t know if anyone has thought about it yet. Maybe I will have to do it myself.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a US permanent resident rescued from imprisonment in Russia, displayed incredible eloquence despite the circumstances. He had been jailed by Putin since April 2022.

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@ChrisLashHist Dear Poland: Please stop trying to win the Victim Olympics. Your neighbors have you beat in this regard, and you have actual arenas (in both politics and sports) where you SHOULD be leading. Take your rightful place as a demographic and geographic CEE leader, proszę bardzo.

[Kancelaria Premiera @PremierRP]

NA ŻYWO | Spotkanie premiera Donalda Tuska z prezydentem Ukrainy Wołodymyrem Zełenskim. https://t.co/3QAqgoSCP0

[Reuters @Reuters]

LIVE: Kyiv children's hospital hit in Russian attack https://t.co/7Bv1jlrrxV

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is so you believe nothing. Then you will do nothing.

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@steven_seegel Come to Gdańsk!

[Max Fras @maxfras]

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about Georgia without telling me you know nothing