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Lech Kaczynski Plane Crash: Twin Brother Says Polish Leader's Death Likely No Accident

By The Huffington Post News Editors Mar 28th 2012 - 05:03PM

The twin brother of the Polish president who died in a 2010 plane crash in Russia claimed Wednesday that the accident is looking increasingly like an assassination and called on the European Union to investigate.

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  • 05/24/12 Football: Polish leader plays down Russian hotel spat Source: EUbusiness - UK Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski on Thursday played down calls to move Russia's Euro 2012 team base from a central Warsaw hotel due to concerns about a nearby rally, saying the situation would be under control.
  • 05/24/12 Polish jails ready for Euro fans Source: Sligo Champion Poland is putting hundreds of judges on stand-by and moving some 600 inmates out of prisons in cities hosting European championship games next month to prepare for law-breaking football fans.
  • 05/23/12 Football: Poland asks Russia to change hotel amid demo... Source: EUbusiness - UK Poland has asked Russia to consider shifting its Euro 2012 base from a central Warsaw hotel, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha said Wednesday, amid concerns about a politically-sensitive rally.
  • 05/08/12 Katyn 2. New data confirm Poland's President finished... Source: Kavkaz Center 46, Russian time, that is 5 minutes after the accident, shows that at this time he was still alive (5 minutes after the explosion was too little for any outsider to seize the phone - KC).
  • 04/09/12 Suspicions linger two years after death of Polish... Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA 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.

Background on lech kaczynski

Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the Law and Justice party.

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