earlier, my colleague christian spoke to our reporter bartosz kielak who explained why.tarted receiving letters from herfans asking her not to perform at the new year's eve celebration organised by the polish national state broadcaster, citing the treatment of lgbt communities and the coverage they have been receiving from the broadcaster over the last few years. she's had a lot of praise on social media from those who support lgbtq communities, but there's been a lot of criticism in poland. what are they saying? well, journalists and politicians supportive of the polish government, associated with the polish government, are saying that she did not raise similar concerns when she performed in 2018 in russia and, as we know, russia criminalises the sort of behaviour that they describe as promotion of homosexuality, they penalise being homosexual in many ways, and aspects of that. so the polish national broadcaster has in the past been criticised within the country for producing media and news coverage that was critical of what they call lgbtq lifestyle, in a similar way t