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Russian servicemen used bank cards stolen from the remains of a Polish airliner that crashed April 10, withdrawing funds from the savings of one of the 96 Polish officials killed in the disaster, Russian news services reported Monday night, citing law enforcement officials.

Three servicemen assigned to guard the Smolensk airport have been arrested on suspicion of theft, an official from the Central Federal District told Interfax, speaking anonymously. Spokesmen for Russia’s Defense Ministry were not available for comment late Monday.

Prosecutors in Warsaw said that between one and three hours after the crash, about $1,700 was withdrawn using a bank card belonging to Andrzej Przewoznik, secretary general of the Council for the Protection of the Memory of Combat and Martyrdom. A statement from a spokeswoman for the Polish prosecutors, Monika Lewandowska, said the suspects were conscripted soldiers assigned to a nearby garrison, and that they made six additional unsuccessful attempts to withdraw money from a second card belonging to Mr. Przewoznik on the day of the crash.

The theft, if confirmed, could taint the atmosphere of cooperation that drew Russia and Poland together in April. Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski, and 95 others were killed when the plane tried to land in a heavy fog on the way to a ceremony commemorating the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet troops during World War II.

An outpouring of compassion from Russian officials — including a spontaneous embrace between Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and his Polish counterpart — seemed to end a long chill that had set in between the two neighbors. But news reports of the theft revived mutual sniping. The news first broke Saturday in Rzeczpospolita, a daily newspaper in Poland. Pawel Gras, a spokesman for the Polish government, confirmed Sunday that three riot policemen had been arrested for stealing a credit card. The account was denied by Russia’s Interior Ministry, which issued a statement noting that Poland’s acting president had decorated four Russian officers for their service to Poland.

Mr. Gras acknowledged Monday that he had incorrectly identified the suspects as police officers, but he said his mistake “does not change the fact that a shameful act took place,” Gazeta Wyborcza reported.

According to the statement from Ms. Lewandowska, Polish authorities first reported the thefts to their Russian counterparts on May 21.

Five young teenagers got pregnant after playing games with their school mates from a lower secondary school in the town of Ostroda, northern Poland.

Students, aged 14-15, played a game called “the sun” or “a star”. “Girls lay on the floor in a circle with their heads together and eyes closed and boys copulate with them, taking turns. The winner was the boy who managed to finish the intercourse last,” one of the students revealed.

The game resulted in several pregnancies. “This year five girls got pregnant, two of them have already given birth,” said Anna Czarnocka, the school’s headmaster.

The prosecutors who are investigating the case complain that parents and teachers of the teenagers from Ostroda are not willing to cooperate. Nobody talks about sex at school and there is no psychologist who would explain to the students that such games can lead to pregnancy.

The girls in question deny the above as can be seen in the full article (in Polish):

http://www.se.pl/wydarzenia/kraj/ostroda-zaszlam-w-ciaze-ale-nie-podczas-orgii_140377.html

A bit of news now from the nautical world, in December last year Natasza Caban completed her solo navigation of the globe. She started sailing as a youngster on a local lake in Utska Poland, by the time she was 22 she was joining crews sailing to Australia and the South Pacific.

On the 27th July 2007 she set off from Honolulu, sailing westwards in the same boat that many other solo circumnavigators have used(David Dicks, Jesse Martin, Don McIntyre, Jessica Watson) – a Sparksman & Stephens 34. For this boat she will be ever grateful to Australian sailor Mike Steward, who sold her the boat. ‘He let me prepare here before I even had the money. He was a first person to gave me a hand believing in my dream and I’m very thankful to him.’

As Natasza gradually made her way around the world, the number of people following her journey increased. Soon not only her family and close friends were aware, but ‘kids in schools, TV and radio, specially in Poland.’

One of the things that has pleased Natasza greatly is the letters that tell her that she has inspired them to fulfill their own dreams. As to her own inspiration, she quotes another Polish sailor Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, the first woman to sail around the world solo, Teresa Remiszewska-Damsz, a Polish sailor who took part in a Transatlantic Race in 1972, and Leonid Teliga, the first Pole to circumnavigate the world solo.

If Natasza ever feels the need to sail the world again with just herself and her vibrator nature then I’d happily volunteer to join her.

Poland’s favourite volleyball starlet has shed her clothes for a shoot in Playboy’s Polish edition.

I’ve just included the (relatively) SFW pics here, if you want to see the full set I’ll include a link at the bottom. Enjoy!

Full set of Anna Baranska Playboy pics here

I’ve not been following Mam Talent but I usually try catch up with it online. Regular viewers will know of Kasia Popowksa from last year.

She’s not a bad singer but can’t seem to lose the slight Polish accent on the English songs. She seems to be doing well though. Enjoy the pics.

Reports coming soon!

The 25 contestants for Miss Poland 2009 are currently touring Thailand, visiting places such as Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket. I wonder what the overweight Westerners who go there to pick up petite Asian women made of this, seeing as they prefer the Thai look and paying to get laid. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Polish girls did a tour of the major tourist attractions and will also be learning Thai cooking, having spa treatments and doing water sports. It is hoped that the press exposure will encourage more Poles to visit Thailand. 

This visit was arranged with the Tourism Authority of Thailand who wish to increase visitors from Poland, in 2008 27,800 Poles visited staying an average 12 days. The majority headed to the (seedy) resort of Pattaya.

Enough of me waffling on… how about some pictures