''Nie'' (stylised as ''NIE''; Polish for "No"; pronounced ) is a Polish weekly

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published in

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History and profile

The magazine was first published in October 1990. It was founded by

Jerzy Urban Jerzy Urban (born Jerzy Urbach, 3 August 1933 – 3 October 2022) was a Polish journalist, commentator, writer and politician, best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine ''Nie''. From 1981 to 1989 he was the Press Sec ...

who was the first and only

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of the magazine until his death in 2022. Its political line is

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. The magazine is very critical of

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political views and

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, especially

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. In the 1990s it supported the leader of the

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. It publishes lot of satirical texts with cartoons and pictures. ''Nie'' had a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1991. In 1995 its circulation was over 700,000 copies. In 1990 when

Solidarity Solidarity or solidarism is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. True solidarity means moving beyond individual identities and single issue politics ...

and the church were planning to push a strict new

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law through

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, the magazine published a quarter-page, full-color photograph of a nude couple about to make love to warn its readers that "they risked going to jail or being forced into unwanted marriages if they did what the couple in the picture was about to do." The church leaders and

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (; ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 Polish presidential election, 1990 election, Wałę ...

harshly criticized it and in March 1991 the prosecutor's office charged Urban with "publishing an image of pornographic character."

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History and profile

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