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FILE - In this Saturday April 10, 2010 file photo made from video provided by Polish Television's TVP, a firefighter walks near the crash site where Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died, near Smolensk in western Russia. A court in Poland has found a former government official guilty of negligence in the 2010 airplane flight to Russia that ended in a crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. The court in Warsaw court on Thursday, June 13, 2019 ruled that Tomasz Arabski, an aide to Poland’s prime minister at the time, exposed the late president to danger by allowing a hazardous flight to a rudimentary Russian airport. (TVP via AP, file)

Polish court: Ex-aide negligent in presidential plane crash

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Man disrupts memorial observance for Poland’s late president

Associated Press

Poland's two most famous foes, the country's de facto leader, head of the ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski, right, and former President Lech Walesa, second left, stand near each other after exchanging wry comments before a courtroom in Gdansk, Poland, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. Kaczynski is suing Walesa for blaming him for a 2010 plane crash that killed his twin, then-President Lech Kaczynski. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Poland’s Walesa must apologize to rival in slander case

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, emergency ministry workers stand near the wreckage at the site of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Smolensk, western Russia. Poland's government is accusing European Council President Donald Tusk of betraying national interests and bowing to Moscow in the investigation of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Kaczynski and 95 others. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)

Poland says EU’s Tusk hurt nation’s interest over 2010 crash

Associated Press

Banners and placards are held aloft during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland is still deeply divided over the investigation into the crash. A year later, 42 percent of Poles now see Polish-Russian relations as "bad." (Associated Press)

Poles mark anniversary of Smolensk plane crash

By Gerhard Schneibel - Special to The Washington Times

Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski greets supporters after exit polls indicate him to be the possible winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Komorowski win strengthens Polish government

By Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Komorowski leads Kaczynski in Polish election

By Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Memories of WWII swaying policies

Hard-headed barter imperils Poland’s EU relationships