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One of the key initiatives of his career was to achieve greater openness and recognition from Russia about the massacre of Polish officers by the Soviet secret police in 1940. He insisted that the two countries could not build normal ties without achieving reconciliation over these crimes. On Wednesday, Putin...
After the ceremony, which marked the 70th anniversary of the killings at Katyn, Putin gave a controversial explanation of why Stalin had ordered them. He said Stalin was seeking revenge for the death in 1920 of Red Army soldiers in Polish prisoner of war camps, where around 32,000 troops...
Under the constitution, new presidential elections will have to be held, and replacements will also need to be found for the chief of Poland's military and the deputy minister of foreign affairs, as well as scores of other officials who were on that flight. How the tragedy will effect...
Poles on Saturday were laying flowers and praying in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw as they began to mourn the deaths. Churches around the country announced services to commemorate the dead during a week of national mourning. (Read a TIME story on Poland and Russia.)
The Polish delegation was en route to commemorate thousands of Polish prisoners of war and intellectuals murdered at Katyn by Soviet forces in spring 1940, in an enduring symbol for Poles of their suffering under Soviet rule. The passengers included Poland's Army chief of staff, central banker, deputy foreign...