Judy Dempsey: Poland-Russia relations – grounded
A woman hold a flag with a picture of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, at the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 10, 2012 during a ceremony for the second anniversary of the Smolensk air crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
On April 10, 2010, a Polish government aircraft attempted to land in dense fog in Smolensk, western Russia. Lech Kaczyński, then Poland’s president, was on the plane. He was leading a delegation of the country's military and political top brass. They were traveling to Katyn to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the murder of 20,000 Polish officers and prisoners of war by the Soviet Union's secret police.
