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Polish-Ukrainian friendship masks a bitter, bloody history.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion despite historical grievances between the neighboring nations that stir up bad feelings to this day.
The tensions between the country at war and its staunch ally were acknowledged Wednesday when Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a state visit to Poland, where he was welcomed with honors.
President Andrzej Duda promised that Poland would keep helping Ukraine fight off Russia’s aggression, but he also acknowledged at a joint news conference with Zelesnkyy that the relationship was complicated.
“There are still open wounds in the memory of many people,” Duda said, an obvious reference to the massacres of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the 1940s. Poland considers the killings genocide.
The difficult past in Poland-Ukraine relations goes back even further than that. In a part of Europe where entire nations have disappeared from maps for generations before returning from the ashes of collapsed empires, sometimes at the expense of neighbors, Poles and Ukrainians share a history of existential rivalry.
Ukrainians, for example, harbor resentment from centuries spent under Polish rule, a period which is not remembered as completely benign.
As the two presidents delivered public addresses to a crowd of Ukrainians and Poles in Warsaw, Duda acknowledged that both nations had made a lot of mistakes “for which we paid the ultimate price.”
“We are sending a clear message to the Kremlin today: You will never succeed in dividing us again,” he said.
Polish and Ukrainian officials have mostly avoided addressing the old grievances openly as they remain focused on Ukraine’s survival and worry that Russian could exploit any divisions. It is, after all, a war whose outcome will determine Ukraine’s very existence and Poland’s own security for decades to come.
“In the future, there will be no borders between our peoples: political, economic and — what is very important — historical,” Zelenskyy said in a Telegram message before his meeting with Duda. “But for that we still need to gain victory. For that, we need to walk side by side a little more.”
By raising the matter now, the leaders seemed to acknowledge that thorny issues could not be swept under the rug forever, even with the war dragging on.
Duda and other nationalist authorities face political pressure to make sure Polish suffering at Ukrainian hands is not forgotten, especially with the growing strength of a far-right party, Confederation, that has sometimes expressed anti-Ukrainian views. A parliamentary election in Poland before the end of the year will be a test for the ruling party, Law and Justice, and determine whether it wins a third term.
On Wednesday, though, Zelenskyy was met with red carpets and pomp. Duda bestowed on his visitor Poland’s oldest and highest civilian distinction, The Order of the White Eagle. “You are surely one of the most outstanding people who has received the distinction,” the Polish president said.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-ukraine-history-war-bandera-tensions-d6a4743ca945dc3144886d9232ed795d
Twitter slaps NPR with 'US state-affiliated media' label
The designation comes as NPR struggles to combat financial woes, with the firm announcing in late March that it would slash multiple podcasts and lay off roughly 100 staffers to help close a budget deficit.
Twitter has applied a "US state-affiliated media" label to National Public Radio (NPR) to the platform's account.
The @NPR handle sports a yellow badge with a white checkmark indicating its status as an "official organization," but now includes the label immediately below the badge.
"State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution," Twitter explains. "Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled."
"State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy," the platform adds.
NPR disagreed with the categorization. CEO John Lansing issued a statement saying the company was "disturbed" by the label and that it "does not apply" to the platform. "NPR and our Member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide," the statement reads.
"NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy," Lansing added.
NPR's website states that "Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR" [emphasis original].
The network receives annual grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a publicly funded non-profit created by the government.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/twitter-slaps-npr-us-state-affiliated-media-label
But recent disasters, including a holy town sinking in January, have resulted in “question marks” over the focus on dams as a way of ensuring round-the-clock clean power, said Vibhuti Garg, an energy economist at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
About a tenth of India’s power comes from the sun or wind, and large dams provide the “backbone” by allowing it to balance the grid when there are sharp changes in demand, said Ammu Susana Jacob, a scientist at the think tank Center of Study of Science, Technology and Policy.
To wean itself off dirty fuels and meet its 2030 goals, India needs to increase its energy storage capacity to 41 gigawatts, according to government estimates.
https://apnews.com/article/india-hydro-energy-climate-renewables-dams-da673164d0b0a653a2291f4cab16742a
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