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A Polish flag with a black streamer flies from a car outside a memorial mass at Holy Trinity Church held to honor Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the 96 others killed when their plane crashed yesterday in Western Russia April 11, 2010 in Chicago, Ill
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A Polish flag with a black streamer flies from a car outside a memorial mass at Holy Trinity Church held to honor Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the 96 others killed when their plane crashed yesterday in Western Russia April 11, 2010 in Chicago, Ill
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The Deputy Chief of Government Security Pavel Belavny, who was responsible for organizing the fateful visit of President Lech Kaczynski to Katyn in 2010, was dismissed on Wednesday night according to information released by the Interior Ministry on Thurs
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Polish newspaper Interia published an article by a local journalist, Konrad Piasecki, "Smolensk-2010 as Dallas in 1993 (Smoleńsk 2010 jak Dallas 1963)". It is to be recalled that JFK was killed by an American, Lee Harry Oswald, who had previously asked a
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MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti) – The Polish Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has found numerous violations in the organization of flights for top officials in the Polish Armed Forces between 2005 and 2010, Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Thursday. Audit experts
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According to media outlets, the representatives of the main Polish opposition party "Law and Justice" are seeking the resumption of investigation into the crash near Smolensk in 2010. This was announced today by representatives of the party after the pro
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There is no need to reopen the investigation into the April 2010 Smolensk plane crash that killed 96 members of Poland’s military and political elite, Jerzy Miller, who headed the Polish investigation commission, said on Wednesday. His comments come two
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New results of black box inquiry by experts from the southern Polish city of Krakow presented by Poland’s military prosecution yesterday contradict findings of the Russian investigation report on the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia that killed Polish P
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Russia will install a steel protective construction to fence off the parts of Poland’s Lech Kaczyński’s Tu-154 plane which crashed on April 2010 near Smolensk in thick fog. This was reported by Poland’s Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet after his visit
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The first series of the BBC documentary about Putin will be shown in Britain on Thursday, January 19 at 9:00 pm. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center British journalist Angus Roxburgh, who has worked several years in Russia as adviser of Putin's spo
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On the morning of April 10, 2010, a ball of flame erupted in the forest outside of Smolensk, Russia. A plane had crashed. Everyone on board was killed. This was a significant fact, especially for Poland. Lech Kaczynski, the president of Poland, was on th
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The seemingly bizarre case of the Polish military prosecutor, Mikolaj Przybyl, who made a failed assassination attempt on Monday, shooting himself in the head during a break in a press conference, is no laughing matter. In fact, it may lead to a Russia-r
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Polish Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet will head to Russia on a three-day visit on Wednesday, Seremet’s spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk said. “Seremet will fly to Moscow on January 11 on an invitation from Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika in connect
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WARSAW (Jan 11, 2012): A Polish military prosecutor who survived shooting himself in the head at the end of a news conference said on Tuesday he had tried to kill himself to protect the honour of his profession after being hounded by accusations and thre
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WARSAW — A military prosecutor said Tuesday that he tried to commit suicide during a news conference he had called because his own work has been used as a reason supporting plans to close military prosecution offices in Poland. Only on msnbc.com 'Tortur
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By Chris Borowski WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish military prosecutor who survived shooting himself in the head at the end of a news conference said on Tuesday he had tried to kill himself to protect the honour of his profession after being hounded by accusa
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In April 2010 Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other senior Polish figures were killed in a mysterious plane crash in Russia. The Polish dignitaries were traveling to events marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Polish
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Col Mikolaj Przybyl speaks at a press conference before shooting himself. (Courtesy of BBC) A military prosecutor in Poland shot himself after briefing media at a news conference on Monday, Polish media is reporting. Col. Mikolaj Przybyl was defending th
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A Polish military prosecutor linked to an investigation into the 2010 air crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski shot himself in the head yesterday after abruptly cutting short a news conference where he had been defending the work of his office. Col
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A Polish army prosecutor probing the plane crash that killed former President Lech Kaczynski gave an agitated news conference today then excused himself and, with cameras still rolling, stepped into a side room and shot himself, RT television reports. Pr
About Lech Kaczynski
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Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (help·info), pronounced [ˈlɛx alɛˈksandɛr kaˈtʂɨɲskʲi] (born 18 June 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland, a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS). Kaczyński served as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ... Full Article
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Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski takes part in a commemoration ceremony on April 11, 2011, in Smolensk on the site of the plane crash that killed former Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others passengers. The leaders of Poland and Russia on Monday moved to end an array of...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) embraces his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski during a commemoration ceremony on April 11, 2011, in Smolensk on the site of the plane crash that killed former Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others passengers. The leaders of Poland...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski visit the site of the plane crash that killed Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others passengers in Smolensk. The leaders of Poland and Russia moved to end an array of rows over the plane crash that...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski (L) attend a commemoration ceremony at the site of the plane crash that killed Poland's former President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others passengers in Smolensk on April 11, 2011. The leaders of Poland and...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, takes part in a flower-laying ceremony outside the Polish Embassy in Moscow, on April 10, 2011, to mark the first anniversary of the plane crash, that killed former Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others near Smolensk.
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A man holds a cross decorated with pictures of late president Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 10, 2011, during a memorial service commemorating the victims of the Smolensk presidential plane crash. Poland on Sunday marked the...
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Russia's First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva (L) speaks with Polish ambassador to Russia Voitsekh Zaionchkovsky (R) and his wife during a visit to the Polish embassy in Moscow on April 10, 2011 to mark the first anniversary of the plane crash, that killed former Poland's President Lech...
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Grieving relatives of the victims of the April 2010 crash of a Polish presidential jet in which president Lech Kaczynski and all 95 other passengers were killed visit a monument of Polish officers murdered by Soviet secret security services in Katyn in 1940, in Katyn, on April 9, 2011. ...
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Grieving relatives of the victims of the April 2010 crash of a Polish presidential jet in which president Lech Kaczynski and all 95 other passengers were killed attend a memorial service on the Smolensk airdrome, the site of the disaster, on April 9, 2011. President Lech Kaczynski, his...
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