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SR April 2016 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 __ _____________ __ April 2016 Scholarship and Discernment Entrance to the University of Warsaw from Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. In 2016 UW celebrates its 200th anniversary. Photo by Edwin Dyga. April 2016 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW The Sarmatian Review (ISSN 1059- In this issue: 5872) is a triannual publication of the Polish Institute of Thank You Note . 1992 Houston. The journal deals with Polish, Central, and Eastern European affairs, and it explores their implications Sarmatian Review Data. .. .1993 for the United States. We specialize in the translation of LETTER. 1995 documents. Sarmatian Review is indexed in the American Leonard Kress, The Wonder and Woe Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, of Translating . 1996 EBSCO, and P.A.I.S. International Database. 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Prokopczuk; Mr. & Mrs. Florian S. Web Address: <www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia> Alternate Web Address: Central and East European Online Zalewski. Library <ceeol.com> under Periodicals United States Sarmatian Review Archival Web Address: http://scholarship.rice.edu/ handle/browse Worth remembering: donations to Sarmatian Review are tax deductible. 1992 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW April 2016 Sarmatian Review Data The role of Polish forests in CO2 absorption Size of Polish forests: 9 million hectares or 22.2 million acres. Amount of CO2 absorbed by Polish forests in 1990–2005: 330 million tons. Amount by which CO2 in Poland was to be reduced between 2005–2012 according to Kyoto Protocols: 170 million tons. Estimated fulfillment of this protocol in Poland in 2005–2012: Poland overfulfilled the Kyoto Protocols in spite of using coal in its electric power stations. Source: “Szczyt klimatyczny w Paryżu: dla Polski szansą lasy, zasoby geotermalne i biomasa,” Portal <wgospodarce.pl>, 1 December 2015 <http://wgospodarce.pl/informacje/21993-szczyt-klimatyczny-w-paryzu-dla- polski-szansa-lasy-zasoby-geotermalne-i-biomasa>, accessed 4 December 2015. Estimated percentage of European coal located on Polish territory: 90 percent. Source: “Prezydent Andrzej Duda: węgiel równa się suwerenności Polski!” Portal <wgospodarce.pl>, 4 December 2015, <http://wgospodarce.pl/informacje/22026-prezydent-andrzej-duda-wegiel-rowna-sie- suwerennosc-polski>, accessed on the same day. Facts and figures about Polish agriculture Percentage of Polish territory that consists of agricultural land and forests: 59 percent and 31 percent, respectively. Land used for agriculture in figures: arable land 73 percent; permanent pastures 21 percent, orchards 2 percent. Increase of ecologically certified agricultural land: fourfold since 2000, from 9,000 hectares to 37,000 hectares. Greatest polluters of the Baltic Sea due to use of artificial fertilizers that are then carried by rivers to the Baltic Sea: 1. Germany 2. Finland 3. Poland. Source: Polish Statistical Office (GUS), as reported by Portal <wgospodarce.pl>, 25 December 2015 (accessed 5 January 2016). Multiculturalism in practice Percentage of EU inhabitants who hold foreign passports (i.e., passports of countries other than the country of residence): 7 percent, or 34 million persons. The most mobile EU nation: Poland; in 10 EU countries Poles are in the first five groups holding foreign passports. Percentage of Poles among immigrants in Ireland 22 percent; Great Britain 15 percent; Holland 11 percent; Denmark 7 percent. Number of Poles in the UK: 748,000. Other countries to which Poles have emigrated in considerable numbers: Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, Lithuania. Other nationals with high mobility within the EU: Germans, Italians, and Romanians. Nations outside the EU that most frequently emigrate to EU: Ukrainians, Turks, Russians. Source: Eurostat statistics < http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Migration_and_migrant_population_statistics>, accessed 5 January 2016. Media subscription orders for 2016 inherited by PiS government from PO government The Administration Ministry found the following subscription orders in its books: Gazeta Wyborcza (postcommunist left daily), 17 copies; Polityka (postcommunist left weekly), 14 copies; Newsweek (left- leaning weekly ), 11 copies; Nasz Dziennik (clerical rightist daily), 1 copy. Prime Minister’s Office: Gazeta Wyborcza, 25 copies; Polityka, 14 copies; Newsweek, 9 copies, Nasz Dziennik, 1 copy; Gazeta Polska Codziennie (rightist daily), 1 copy; Do Rzeczy (conservative weekly), 3 copies, wSieci (right wing weekly), 2 copies. Source: “Tak urabiano urzędników,” Portal <wpolityce.pl>, http://wpolityce.pl/polityka/273646-tak-urabiano- urzednikow-kolacja-po-psl-faworyzowala-sprzyjajaca-jej-prase-w-resortach-prenumerowano-gazete-michnika- tygodnik-lisa-inna-prase-traktowano-po-macoszemu, 1 December 2015, accessed 11 February 2016. 1993 April 2016 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Gradual increase in vodka production in Soviet Russia Number of decaliters (1 decaliter=10 liters, or approximately 10 quarts) of vodka produced in Soviet Russia in 1924 and 1952, respectively: 30 million and 81 million. Source: Andrei Kolesnikov, “Khlev, kartoshka, vodka,” <gazeta.ru> http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/column/kolesnikov/8015735.shtml, 13 January 2016, accessed on the same day. Russian trade with the European Union Value of Russian trade with the European Union in 2014 (before Western sanctions for invading Ukraine were imposed): 501 billion dollars at 2016 exchange rate. Value of Russian-EU trade in 2015 (after sanctions were imposed): 242 billion. Source: Vladimir Socor, “Munich Security Conference Debates Russia’s War in Ukraine, Eurasia Daily Monitor, vol. 13, no. 31, accessed February 16, 2016. Polish wages in 2014 (the most recent figures available) Number of persons whose wages per month amount to Zl 1,680 before taxes, or Zl 1,237 after taxes and other fees: 1.36 million. Exchange rate in 2014: ca. $1=Zl 3.90. Median wages in Poland in 2014: Zl 3,291 before taxes, or Zl
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