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For Poland, Plane Crash in Russia Rips Open Old Wounds
For Poland, Plane Crash in Russia Rips Open Old Wounds
The 97 aboard a Soviet-era plane were heading to Katyn, site of the 1940
massacre of Polish prisoners of war. Now Poland, which hasn't forgotten
its tragic past, must grieve the loss of its key leader
By Megan K. Stack
April 11, 2010
Los Angeles Times
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Reporting from Moscow
The plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Saturday
gutted a nation's leadership and silenced some of the most potent human
symbols of its tragic and tumultuous history.
It was, in a sense, a nation colliding with its past: The aircraft ran
aground on a patch of earth that has symbolized the Soviet-era repressions
that shaped much of the 20th century, near the remote Russian forest glade
called Katyn where thousands of Polish prisoners of war were killed and
dumped in unmarked graves by Soviet secret police in 1940.
The toll cut a swath through Poland's elite. The 97 dead included the army
chief of staff, the head of the National Security Bureau, the national
bank president, the deputy foreign minister, the deputy parliament
speaker, the civil rights commissioner and other members of parliament.
Also aboard the plane were war veterans and surviving family members of
Poles killed by the Soviets. There was 90-year-old Ryszard Kaczorowski,
Poland's last "president-in-exile" during the Soviet years. And Anna
Walentynowicz, the shipyard worker whose dismissal in 1980 sparked the
Solidarity union protests that eventually led to the collapse of Polish
communism and made the symbolic first chink in the Berlin Wall.
And of course, Kaczynski, a former Warsaw mayor who had been imprisoned
for his opposition to communism.
"The contemporary world has not seen such a tragedy," said Polish Prime
Minister Donald Tusk, who as head of government holds the reins of power
in the country. He called for two minutes of silence at noon Sunday.
The pavements of central Warsaw were transformed into a sea of light as
late-night mourners burned thousands of candles. On Pilsudski Square, a
trail of flickering flames stretched more than 50 yards from the Grave of
the Unknown Soldier to the towering white cross marking the site where
Pope John Paul II first said Mass to his compatriots in 1979.
Poland mourns death of president, other top officials in plane crash
By Edward Cody and Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 11, 2010; 4:30 AM
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WARSAW -- Thousands of Poles streamed by the presidential palace in
central Warsaw Sunday in a second day of national mourning for President
Lech Kaczynski and a delegation of senior officials who were killed when
the presidential jet crashed in heavy fog on approach to an airfield in
western Russia.
The Saturday morning crash, which officials said killed all 97 people on
board, including the president's wife, generated what participants
described as a spontaneous outpouring of support, not necessarily for
Kaczynski's nationalist politics or his party, but for the office of the
presidency and the military officers, lawmakers and civil servants who
were killed alongside him in the service of the Polish nation.
"You can look around the street here, and half the people would not be
voting for Kaczynski," said Aleksander Zborowski, 36, an Arizona
State-educated engineer who was standing in front of the presidential
palace along with thousands of other mourners Saturday evening. "But they
are here because he was our president. It is patriotism."
In a misty chill Sunday morning, mourners lined up to enter the palace in
small groups to sign a condolence book, passing floral wreaths and
thousands of red, green and yellow votive lights still burning like flower
banks around a pedestrian esplanade in front of the palace. Others
attended Sunday mass to hear Poland's influential Roman Catholic prelates
saying prayers for Kaczynski and the other victims.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the crash "the most tragic event of the
country's postwar history," and his government called on Poles to observe
two minutes of silence.
Under Poland's constitution, Tusk exercises primary control over the
government, based on his party's majority in Parliament. The president,
although the titular armed forces commander, plays a largely ceremonial
role.
Among military personnel killed were the army chief of staff, the head of
the air force and the navy chief commander.
Poland Feels Shock at the Size of Its Loss
By NICHOLAS KULISH and MICHAL PIOTROWSKI
Published: April 10, 2010
New York Times
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WARSAW On a chilly April night, thousands of Poles wandered the historic
old town of the capital city, their way lighted by a multitude of
flickering flames, candles in the red and white colors of the Polish flag
burning at their feet.
The people were of all ages and political persuasions, families and groups
of boys and girls in scouting uniforms. If there were no answers to be
found Saturday night as to why the country had been robbed of many of its
brightest minds and most dedicated public servants, Poles could at least
find reassurance in the presence of so many others in the same searching
state of shock.
Pawel Skoczylas, 26, a clerk, said that he had come to the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier at Pilsudski Square to mourn those killed because Im a
patriot, because Im a Catholic, because Im a citizen of Poland, because Im
just a man, a person.
His voice trembled as he spoke. Like many of those out in the streets, he
said he had difficulty talking about something he had not yet fully
grasped.
A line of candles ran from the tomb to the tall, white cross marking the
spot where Pope John Paul II had given his first sermon in his native land
as pontiff. Mourners formed a circle around the cross and sang Black
Madonna, a hymn about the religious icon and national symbol.
I felt I had to be here, said Tomasz Kielar, 40, a civil servant. He said
he knew Wladyslaw Stasiak, head of the presidents chancellery, who was one
of those killed in the crash of a plane taking Polish officials to Russia
to commemorate the Katyn massacre.
Katyn was a page in history in the 20th century, he said. Now its going to
be a page in history in the 21st century.
Almost everyone interviewed knew someone who died that morning in the
thick fog of western Russia, not only the famous politicians and
commanding generals, but also the Russian-Polish interpreter, the
presidents doctor, the eight members of the presidential security detail.
Lech Kaczynski, 60
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60; came to power with twin
Sunday, April 11, 2010
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Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60, a former anti-communist dissident who
came to power with his twin brother in 2005 promising a "moral
revolution," died April 10 in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. His
wife, Maria, and Poland's central bank governor, Slawomir Skrzypek, also
died in the crash.
Mr. Kaczynski was elected president in October 2005, one month after the
Law and Justice party, which he founded with his brother Jaroslaw, won a
parliamentary election. Jaroslaw Kaczynski became Poland's prime minister
in 2006, giving the identical twins control of both the presidency and the
government.
Mr. Kaczynski and his brother took a strongly pro-U.S. stance and
supported plans to place a U.S. missile-defense facility in their country.
They pledged to stamp out corruption and shake up a system that they
considered rife with communist-era officials in control of politics and
business.
In 2007, Jaroslaw Kaczynksi was voted out of office in early elections
after his governing coalition fell apart. Lech Kaczynski was expected to
announce his bid for reelection as president next month, although he was
trailing Prime Minister Donald Tusk in early polls.
Crash focusses attention on Tupolev-154
About 1,000 Tupolev-154s were built
The death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash is likely to
raise questions about the 20-year-old Tupolev-154 he was travelling in.
Page last updated at 13:32 GMT, Saturday, 10 April 2010 14:32 UK
BBC News
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The BBC's Adam Easton reports from Warsaw that there had been calls for
Polish leaders to upgrade their planes.
And in late 2008 Mr Kaczynski had suffered a couple of scares. Problems
with the aircraft's steering mechanism delayed his departure from
Mongolia, forcing him to take a charter flight to Tokyo, and a week later
the plane was caught up in turbulence flying to Seoul.
However, the aircraft had recently undergone a major overhaul and Aleksey
Gusev, the head of the maintenance plant that carried out the work, told
Polish TV that it should not have had technical problems.
"From the moment it entered service, the plane had had 5,004 flight hours
and 1,823 landings, which for aircraft of this class is not a lot," he
said.
"The plane was flying quite well and there were no complaints."
The overhaul was completed in December and included repairing the plane's
three engines. The next major service was due in six years.
'Modernised'
The Tupolev-154 was for more than a quarter of a century the backbone of
Russia's and the Soviet Union's air transport system.
It carried about half the number of all passengers flown by Russia's
national carrier Aeroflot and its successors in that time, with that
number peaking at 137 million per year in 1990.
About 1,000 were built, and some remain in service in Russia and countries
that were once part of the Soviet bloc.
Putin Vistits Crash Site To Pay Final Respects To Polish President
April 11, 2010 8:32 a.m. EST
Topics: government, politics, disaster and accident, accident, heads of
state, World
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Smolensk, Russian Federation (AHN) - Russian Vice President Vladimir Putin
on Sunday flew to the site of a plane crash that killed the Polish
president and much of that countrys top leadership over the weekend.
None of the 97 passengers onboard the Tupelov-154 jetliner survived after
it crashed into a forest as it approached the Smolensk Airport in western
Russia Saturday.
The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynki was identified by his twin
brother Jaroslaw, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Putin went to the crash site to pay final respects to Kaczynski and the
other victims, according to the news agency.
Press Review | 11.04.2010
Press review: German sympathy for Polish president and people
Sympathy and grief for neighboring Poland dominated the German press on
Sunday, following the shocking death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski
and many of the country's ruling elite in a plane crash on Saturday.
Duetsche Welle
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As Poland mourns the sudden death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane
crash in western Russia on Saturday, the news has prompted a flood of
sympathy from the rest of Europe.
In Germany, the death of the 60-year-old Polish president was met with
shock and sadness. Coverage of the tragedy, which killed 97 people,
including President Kaczynski's wife and dozens of the country's ruling
elite, dominated Sunday's newspapers.
In Berlin, home to thousands of Polish immigrants, the outpouring of grief
was especially strong. After the news broke on Saturday, mourners carrying
the red and white Polish flag created makeshift memorials of candles and
flowers on many streets.
The Berliner Morgenpost ran the headline "Berlin mourns with Poland the
victims of Smolensk." The paper said there would be a moment of silence at
the Brandenburg Gate, followed by a memorial service for the victims of
the plane crash.
In an editorial, the Tagesspiegel am Sonntag called Kaczynski's untimely
death "a dagger in the heart." The Berlin-based newspaper paid tribute to
his legacy, while acknowledging the often difficult relationship he had
with fellow European heads of state.
"This little man quite often drove Angela Merkel and many other European
leaders to the edge of reason with his mix of provinciality,
unpredictability and cunning," an editorial stated. "Yet this little man,
he actually did something very big in Poland."
Meanwhile, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper concentrated on the "cynical
twist of fate" that the crash occurred en route to the Katyn memorial
service to commemorate Poles massacred by Soviet troops in World War II.
Pilot error eyed in Poland president's plane crash: agencies
Agence France-Presse
Smolensk, April 10, 2010
First Published: 15:31 IST(10/4/2010)
Last Updated: 15:33 IST(10/4/2010)
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Families of crash victims to travel to Moscow Sunday: Official
AFP, Apr 11, 2010, 08.49pm IST
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Biography of Poland's Lech Kaczynski
April 10, 2010 -- Updated 2112 GMT (0512 HKT)
CNN International
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London, England (CNN) -- Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a lifelong
academic, rose to popularity leading Warsaw, the city of his birth.
Born in June, 1949, to parents who were educators -- his mother, a
teacher, served as a nurse during WWII, and his father was a lecturer at
Warsaw University of Technology -- Kaczynski was one of twin boys who
would both hold national office.
Kaczynski was elected president in 2005 after securing more than 54
percent of the first round vote, according to the president's official Web
site.
Kaczynski appointed his brother Jaroslaw prime minister in June 2006, a
post he held until the following November.
According to the presidential Web site, Kaczynski worked on behalf of the
Worker's Defence Committee in 1976 to collect money for oppressed workers.
He later gave training and lectures labor law and history to members of
the Free Trade Unions.
In 1980, Kaczynski supported the formation of Solidarity, a new national
umbrella union pulling together the country's trade unions.
Robert Kupiecki, Poland's ambassador to the United States, said the
Solidarity movement brought freedom to the Polish nation.
"The greatest legacy is one of freedom, and it's the one of creating the
foundation of enormous political and economic success in Poland," Kupiecki
said.
Kaczynski "represented the generation of freedom with the legacy of
Solidarity movement," he said.
Mass held for Polish plane crash victims
The Polish president is thought to have been on board with his wife
A service has been held in Edinburgh in memory of the Polish President and
dozens of other senior Polish figures killed in a plane crash.
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Fr Andrzej Jablonski said a Polish Mass was being held at the city's St
Mary's Cathedral at 1930 BST on Saturday.
Poland's president, army chief, central bank governor and leading
historians were among more than 80 passengers on the plane, which crashed
in Russia.
First Minister Alex Salmond described the incident as "an appalling
tragedy".
"I extend my heartfelt condolences to Poland's government and the people
of Poland at this very difficult time," he said.
Analysis: Plane Crash Boosts Polish Prime Minister Tusk
11 April 2010
Reuters
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WARSAW The plane crash that killed Poland's president and leading
opposition politicians has removed at one stroke key opponents of Prime
Minister Donald Tusk and his ruling centrist Civic Platform.
While a shocking blow to Poland's body politic, analysts say
constitutional mechanisms will ensure that there is no power vacuum and
there will not be any long-term impact on stability.
The crash will reinforce Tusk's already considerable dominance of Polish
politics, and analysts say it may have relatively muted long-term
consequences, although they also stress that it is too early to predict
the full impact of such an unprecedented accident on the national
psychology.
President Lech Kaczynski, his top aides, the central bank governor and
seven lawmakers from the main opposition Law and Justice Party were among
96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog near Smolensk in
western Russia.
"[The] plane crash will raise concerns about [Polish] political stability
and relations with Russia, but the outlook is reassuring regarding the
institutional transition for the presidency and the central bank," said
Preston Keat, an analyst for Eurasia Group, a London-based political risk
consultancy.
"The leading political and policy actors will move quickly to stabilize
the situation," he said.
Kaczynski, 60, and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, who heads the Law and
Justice Party, have spearheaded opposition to Tusk's pro-market economic
policies, his embrace of the European Union and his push for early
adoption of the euro.
Lech Kaczynski, known for his combative nationalism, his devout Roman
Catholicism and deep distrust of both the EU and of Vladimir Putin's
Russia, had been expected to seek a new five-year mandate in a
presidential election due this fall.
What's Next for Poland
President Kaczynski's visit to Russia was supposed to help heal a historic
rift between the two countries. But as NEWSWEEK's former Warsaw bureau
chief explains, that won't be easy. Especially now.
Newsweek
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In the United States, all you have to do is say "Pearl Harbor," and
everyone knows what you are talking about. In Polanda country that was
invaded countless times by Russians from the east and Germans from the
westthere are far more names of places that everyone instantly recognizes
because of their tragic symbolism. But one stands out above all others:
Katyn.
<snip>
Kaczynski and the others on the ill-fated flight were supposed to go to
the Katyn forest to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the execution of
21, 857 Polish POWs and civilians on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin
and his Politburo. When I was growing up in our family's new home in the
United States, my fatherwho had served in the Polish Army in 1939 and then
fled to the West, joining Polish forces under British commandmade sure
that his children knew the full meaning of Katyn. Poland hadn't only been
invaded by Hitler, he reminded us; it had also been invaded by Stalin's
armies, and then they had attempted to wipe out any future source of
opposition by executing so many of its top officers and men.
The fact that Stalin and subsequent Soviet and Polish communist regimes
insisted on blaming this crime on the Nazis, who invaded Russia only much
later, just magnified Katyn's potency as a symbol. When I started visiting
Poland as a student and then as a journalist in communist times, people
only had to whisper the word "Katyn" to signal their opposition to the
government and its wholesale falsification of history. You could talk
openly about the truth of Katyn only in the West, where Polish exiles like
my father and grandfather, who served in the Polish government-in-exile in
London during World War II, kept insisting that the cover-up was as bad as
the original crime.
But things began to change after the fall of communism in 1989, triggered
by Solidarity's successful battle for freedom in Poland, which included
the freedom to tell the full truth about Katyn. In a goodwill gesture to
Poland in 1992, Russia's new President Boris Yeltsin finally released the
order from Stalin's Politburo that confirmed Soviet responsibility for the
murders. While this briefly improved Polish-Russian relations, Yeltsin's
successor Vladimir Putin took a harder line on history, initially
encouraging a more positive view of Stalin ("the most successful Soviet
leader ever," proclaimed a Russian teacher's manual in 2007) and renewed
equivocation about his record of mass murder. That included new efforts by
some Russians to deny the truth about Katyn.
Analysis: Katyn touches another Polish generation
By MATT MOORE (AP)
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WARSAW, Poland He died en route to the most sensitive mission possible a
visit to the place that has driven a wedge between Poles and Russians for
three generations.
The death of Lech Kaczynski, Poland's president and dozens of his
high-level countrymen in a plane crash, and the purpose behind the
journey, laid bare the deep divisions that remain between two nations
still struggling to be more than uneasy neighbors who watch each other
with skepticism and suspicion.
Saturday's planned visit to the Katyn forest was somber in purpose but
underscored his suspicious eye of the massive neighbor and former
taskmaster to the east. The memorial service was to mark the 70th
anniversary of the killing of thousands of Polish officers and
intellectuals by the Soviet secret security during World War II.
Katyn. The site of the massacre of Polish military officers, priests,
shopkeepers. Men shot in the back of the head by Josef Stalin's NKVD, the
precursor of the KGB.
"It is an accursed place," former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski
told TVN24 after the crash.
Janusz Bugajski of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said
that Saturday's crash has put Katyn at the center of Polish-Russian
relations.
"It brought to the forefront again an event that Moscow would like to
forget or, if not to forget, to sideline," he said, noting that Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a significant step by attending the
Katyn commemorations last Wednesday with Polish counterpart Donald Tusk.
The ancient city of Smolensk has long played a significant and somewhat
symbolic role in Russian-Polish relations.
Leaders express sorrow at Polish president's death
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A look at what world leaders are saying about the plane crash in which
Polish President Lech Kaczynski perished Saturday:
President Barack Obama called Kaczynski a distinguished statesman who was
widely admired in the United States as a leader dedicated to advancing
freedom and human dignity.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the Kaczynski family, the loved ones of
those killed in this tragic plane crash, and the Polish nation," Obama
said in a statement.
He described Poland's civilian and military leaders who died with
Kaczynski as having helped shape that country's "inspiring democratic
transformation."
___
"On this difficult day the people of Russia stand with the Polish people,"
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
___
German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalled her meetings with Kaczynski and
said that "we always found a result in the end."
"I knew that his whole life had been dedicated to the fight for the
freedom of Poland and the freedom of Europe," she said.
"We will miss Lech Kaczynski in Germany too," she said. "Germany is
mourning today with the whole Polish people."
___
"I think the whole world will be saddened and in sorrow as a result of the
tragic death in a plane crash of President Kaczynski and his wife Maria
and the party that were with them," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
said. "We know the difficulties that Poland has gone through, the
sacrifices that he himself made as part of the Solidarity movement. We
know the contribution he made to the independence and the freedom of
Poland."
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Chicago artist among dead in Polish plane crash
By SOPHIA TAREEN
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CHICAGO One of Wojciech Seweryn's main passions in life was reminding
people of the Katyn massacre, a 1940 slaughter that killed thousands of
Polish military officials, including his own father.
It was that passion that ultimately led to the 70-year-old Chicago
sculptor's death.
Seweryn, a respected artist in the Chicago area's large Polish community,
was among the 97 people killed Saturday when the airliner carrying Polish
President Lech Kaczynski crashed in western Russia.
The group of political, military and church leaders was heading to
commemorative events for the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.
Seweryn had been chosen to accompany the group because of his love of
history and a memorial sculpture he helped create, according to Tadeusz
"Ted" Czajkowski, president of the Alliance of Polish Clubs in the United
States of America.
It became Seweryn's "last wish" to honor his father, he said.
Czajkowski said Seweryn's father was among those slain by the Soviet
secret police in Russia's Katyn forest. "He was about a year old when that
happened," he said.
The Polish-born artist, who immigrated to Chicago in the mid-1970s, was
the driving force behind a memorial to the massacre at the largely Polish
St. Adalbert Cemetery in suburban Niles, Czajkowski said.
Muscovites encircle Polish embassy with flowers and candles
RIA Novosti
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Muscovites are lighting candles and laying flowers near the Polish embassy
on Sunday to mourn the victims of the devastating plane crash that killed
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and several other top officials.
<snip>
Muscovites are coming to the Polish embassy to express their condolences
to the Polish people. There are flowers and lit candles all over the
place.
People leaving notes with condolences in the Russian and Polish languages
on the fence around the embassy building.
"This tragedy will bring us closer to each other, even though our peoples
are very close to each other," a Russian man of Polish origin told RIA
Novosti.
Putin returns to crash site to pay last respects to Kaczynski
RIA Novosti
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew back on Sunday to the site of
the Polish plane crash near Smolensk in west Russia to pay last respects
to Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in the incident.
The Soviet-made TU-154 carrying Kaczynski hit the top of trees as it
attempted in thick fog to land at a Smolensk airport in west Russia on
Saturday morning, killing all the 97 people on board the plane.
Page last updated at 18:09 GMT, Saturday, 10 April 2010 19:09 UK
UK Polish community mourns loss of parish father
BBC News
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VIDEO
West London's Polish community is mourning the loss of their parish
father, who was onboard the flight which killed Poland's president Lech
Kaczynski when it crashed in foggy weather in Russia.
Glance at some of those who died in plane crash
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Skrzypek Death to Test Polish Central Bank
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WARSAW -- Following the sudden death of Polish central bank governor
Slawomir Skrzypek in a plane crash Saturday, his first deputy, Piotr
Wiesiolek, will become interim chief, according to Poland's central-bank
law.
Analysts said that the governor's death is unlikely to change the path of
monetary policy but that the appointment of Mr. Skrzypek's permanent
successor will be a test of whether Poland's ruling Civic Platform party
will be tempted to impinge on the central bank's independence.
Mr. Skrzypek died along with President Lech Kaczynski and many other top
Polish officials in a plane crash in western Russia.
"Since this [transfer of power] mechanism has never been tested, it's
unclear who will name a new permanent central bank chief," said Mateusz
Szczurek, chief economist at ING Bank Slaski in Warsaw.
Under the central bank's law, the central bank's governor is appointed by
the Parliament, but it's the president who nominates the candidate. "Now
there is a question who will nominate the candidate in the president's
absence," said Marcin Mrowiec, chief economist at Bank Pekao SA in Warsaw.
Silence held across Poland for deceased president
Updated 3 hours 27 minutes ago
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Solemnly standing to attention as sirens wailed, Poles fell silent across
the country Sunday as they mourned President Lech Kaczynski and top
officials killed in a fiery air crash in Russia.
Thousands of people observed the two minutes of silence outside the
presidential palace in central Warsaw, in front of a sea of candles and
flowers left by grief-stricken residents at a mass vigil overnight.
Motorists stopped their cars in the capital's wide boulevards and got out
of their vehicles as emergency sirens blared at the stroke of noon, while
black-edged television pictures showed people deep in reflection.
The coffin bearing the body of the Polish president has arrived in Warsaw.
The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, met the coffin at a military
airport in the city.
Mr Kaczynski's body is being given a military escort to the presidential
palace where it will lie in state ahead of his funeral.
Earlier on a fog-shrouded morning that eerily echoed the weather
conditions in which Mr Kaczynski's plane came down Saturday, people
flocked to churches in towns and cities across the devoutly Roman Catholic
nation.
"This is yet one more national tragedy in our history. We Poles have had
many. The loss of human life is hard to bear but we will cope," Zofia
Szymczyk, 70, said as she arrived for mass at central Warsaw's Church of
the Saviour.
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