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Protesters march demanding a stop to massive logging in the Bialowieza forest, one of Europe's last virgin woodlands, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 24, 2017, with placards reading Locals Against Logging. The ruling Law and Justice party has allowed increased logging in Bialowieza, a vast woodland that straddles Poland and Belarus, alarming environmentalists who say it threatens a natural treasure.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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Protesters march demanding a stop to massive logging in the Bialowieza forest, one of Europe's last virgin woodlands, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 24, 2017. The ruling Law and Justice party has allowed increased logging in Bialowieza, a vast woodland that straddles Poland and Belarus, alarming environmentalists who say it threatens a natural treasure.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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Poland's Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz speaks during the welcoming ceremony of the first new jet for government officials, U.S. made Gulfstream G550, at the military airport, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Since early 1990s Poland has been planning to buy new planes for VIP's to replace Soviet made aircrafts. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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The first new jet for Poland's government officials, U.S. made Gulfstream G550, is being welcomed with a water cannon salute as it lands at the military airport, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Since early 1990s Poland has been planning to buy new planes for VIP's to replace Soviet made aircrafts. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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The first new jet for Poland's government officials, U.S. made Gulfstream G550, is blessed by a priest after it landed at the military airport, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Since early 1990s Poland has been planning to buy new planes for VIP's to replace Soviet made aircrafts.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo speaks in the Polish parliament during a debate on a vote to dismiss Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Szydlo said that Poland cannot be blackmailed by "Brussels elites" to accept migrants. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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In this file photo taken March 24 , 2017 in the Bialowieza Forest, in Poland, a bison stands near a place where fir trees have been logged. Some 230 writers and artists have written to Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo to stop the logging at Europe's last primeval forest that is protected as UNESCO world heritage site. (AP Photo/Adam Bohdan)
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FILE- In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 file photo, a visitor looks at an exhibit in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland. A court has opened the way for Poland's populist government to take control of a new World War II museum that has been the focus of a major ideological battle over how to remember the war. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
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FILE- In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 file photo, a woman stands in front of an exhibit in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland. A court has opened the way for Poland's populist government to take control of a new World War II museum that has been the focus of a major ideological battle over how to remember the war. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
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Workers repair a church tin roof, as the communist-era Palace of Culture is seen behind in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 16, 2017.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Prosecutor Andrzej Pozorski speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 13, 2017. Pozorski said that Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man identified as a Nazi-era commander of an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II. The man has been exposed by the AP as 98-year-old Michael Karkoc.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Prosecutor Andrzej Pozorski speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 13, 2017. Pozorski said that Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man identified as a Nazi-era commander of an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II. The man has been exposed by the AP as 98-year-old Michael Karkoc.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Protesters shout slogans during a nationwide rally on International Women's Day, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Women across Poland are staging rallies and marches to demand protection against violence, equal rights and respect. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 27, 2015 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini, right, and former Polish football player Zbigniew Boniek watch the Europa League final soccer match between FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Sevilla FC at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland. UEFA said on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 Poland great Zbigniew Boniek is among 13 candidates for a place on its ruling executive committee at an election in April. President of Poland’s soccer federation since 2012, the former Juventus player is chasing one of eight seats being voted on by UEFA’s 55 members. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
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FILE - This file photo taken in Warsaw, Poland on Feb. 22 , 2016 shows part of an 1970 agreement to collaborate with the communist-era secret police signed "Lech Walesa" and code name "Bolek." Experts of a state history institute said Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Warsaw, Poland, that handwriting analysis of this and other documents confirms that Lech Walesa, the later founder of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement, collaborated with the Polish communist-era secret police for money from 1970 to 1976. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
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Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz speaks during the official welcoming ceremony of the U.S. troops in Zagan, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. The ceremony comes 23 years after the last Soviet troops left Poland and also marks a new historic moment — the first time any Western forces are being deployed on a continuous basis to NATO's eastern flank. (AP Photo/Krzysztof Zatycki)
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Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo speaks during the official welcoming ceremony of the U.S. troops in Zagan, Poland,Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. The ceremony comes 23 years after the last Soviet troops left Poland and also marks a new historic moment — the first time any Western forces are being deployed on a continuous basis to NATO's eastern flank. (AP Photo/Krzysztof Zatycki)
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U.S. Army soldiers are welcomed in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. First U.S. troops arrived at the Zagan base in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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U.S. Army soldiers are welcomed in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. First U.S. troops arrived at the Zagan base in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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A U.S. Army vehicle crosses the Polish border in Olszyna, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 heading for their new base in Zagan. First U.S. troops arrive in Zagan in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
