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Two years after the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in a plane crash united the nation in mourning, the accident is aggravating deep divisions in Polish society.

Conservative Poles—many of them backers of the late president’s Law and Justice party—say the centrist government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has failed to properly investigate the disaster, in which the jet carrying a Polish delegation slammed into the ground in western Russia. Continue reading →

Two years after a plane crash in Russia killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of government officials and military leaders, some Poles refuse to accept Polish and Russian investigators’ conclusions that the crash was caused by weather and pilot error.

Opposition figures and conspiracy theorists protested outside the Russian Embassy in Warsaw on Monday, the eve of the anniversary of the crash that killed Kaczynski, his wife and 94 others en route to a memorial for victims of a Stalin-era massacre in the Katyn forest, near Smolensk. Continue reading →

Poland’s top prosecutor says no evidence to date supports theories that a 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski was an assassination. Continue reading →

The daughter of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash in 2010, Wednesday called for an international investigation into the causes of the crash.

“The extent of irregularities in the probe  into the causes of the crash, in Russia and in Poland, is so vast that the need for an international intervention to look into the case is bigger now than it was in December of last year,” Marta Kaczynska said at a public hearing at the European Parliament compound. Continue reading →

One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches) to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether an autopsy was performed at all. Continue reading →