Urszula Doroszewska (born 2 December 1954 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) is a Polish diplomat, journalist and sociologist, ambassador to Georgia (2008–2013) and

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(2017–2023).

Life

Early life and education

Urszula Doroszewska was born on 2 December 1954 in Warsaw. During her school years she was a scout. In 1978 she graduated from sociology at the

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Until 1989

In 1970s she was engaged in opposition activities against the

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government. She cooperated with the Workers' Defence Committee. From 1977 to 1989 she had been the editor of the independent and catholic press, e.g. journal "Głos". Between 1980 and 1981 she ran the daily news desk for "

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" Mazowsze Region. Following 1981, during the

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she published in underground magazines. In 1984 she had been arrested for political reasons for 2 months.

From 1989

In the 1990s she worked as a freelance journalist, published articles about the changes in the former

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(mainly about

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, Georgia and

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), among others, in the ”

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” daily. Doroszewska ran assistance programmes carried out in Ukraine (

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

) and the South Caucasian countries, conducted first by the IDEE Foundation Warsaw, then by the foundation Towarzystwo Demokratyczne Wschód, over whose works she presided from 2002 to 2006. Since August 2006, she had been working for the Chancellery of the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, as an expert, and, since April 2007 as deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office there. From November 2008 until February 2013 Doroszewska was Poland Ambassador to Georgia. From May 2013 to August 2015 she was director of the Polish Institute in

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. In September 2015 she became an adviser to the President of Poland Andrzej Duda. Between 29 May 2017 and 19 March 2023 she served as an ambassador to Lithuania.

Private life

She is married to Wiktor Krzysztoporski, a graphic artist. She speaks Russian,

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and

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languages.

Honours

* Commander's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

, Poland (2006) *

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, Georgia (2013) * Commander's Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2019) * Lithuanian Diplomacy Star (2023)

References

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