- 22:55 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
There is no need to reopen the investigation into the April 2010 Smolensk plane crash that killed 96 members of Poland’s military and political elite, Jerzy Miller, who headed the Polish investigation commission, said on Wednesday.
- 19:01 09/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti)
A Polish military prosecutor shot himself Monday morning, shortly after a press conference on the April 2010 Smolensk air disaster, Polish Radio External Service said.
- 19:28 05/08/2011 WARSAW, August 5 (RIA Novosti)
Poland is selling Tu-154 and Yak-40 government planes following recommendations in a report on the crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, deputy Defense Minister, Czeslaw Mroczek said on Friday.
- 20:24 03/08/2011 WARSAW, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
Differences between Russian and Polish reports into the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, will not affect bilateral relations, Polish Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz said on Wednesday.
- 20:07 02/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian investigators have rejected some of the key findings of a Polish report into the crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year.
- 19:33 29/07/2011 WARSAW, July 29 (RIA Novosti)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the final report released on Friday on the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year may become a basis for good relations between Russia and Poland.
- 18:10 29/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti)
Poland released its final report on Friday on the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year, suggesting that both the Polish flight crew and Russian air traffic controllers were at fault.
- 18:10 29/07/2011 WARSAW, July 29 (RIA Novosti)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Bogdan Klich.
- 04:46 26/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti)
Authors of Polish government's report will not blame Russia for last year's deadly plane clash which killed a top-ranking Polish delegation.
- 21:30 27/06/2011 WARSAW, June 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Polish investigation commission has submitted to Prime Minister Donald Tusk a final report on the circumstances of the Tu-154 plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year, Polish media said on Monday.
- 17:02 10/06/2011
Polish Prosecutor Mark Pasionek is being probed over allegations that he handed secret information about a plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski to the United States, Poland's tvn24 news channel said on Friday.
- 06:38 14/05/2011
A Polish commission, conducting its own probe into causes of presidential plane crash in western Russia, is about to complete its report.
- 14:32 03/05/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Babich
The crash of the Polish presidential jet last year in western Russia has generated another wave of conspiracy theories in Poland, adding to the list of accusations against Russian authorities.
- 19:44 12/04/2011
The Polish authorities are carrying out a test flight of a Tu-154 airliner as part of their probe into the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people last year.
- 08:00 11/04/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will head for the western Russian city of Smolensk on Monday, where he is expected to hold talks with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski.
- 13:57 10/04/2011
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other Polish government officials on Sunday paid tribute to the victims of last year's plane crash in western Russia that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
- 11:53 10/04/2011
Poland started events on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski with a prayer.
- 23:20 09/04/2011
Some hundreds of Poles are staging a demonstration in front of the Russian embassy in Warsaw to mark the first anniversary of the plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 15:44 09/04/2011
A day before the first anniversary of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, the families of the dead visited the site of the tragedy in western Russia.
- 02:44 09/04/2011
The families of people killed in last year's air crash involving top Polish officials are heading to the western Russian city of Smolensk shortly before the tragedy's first anniversary.
- 13:00 08/04/2011
Russian investigators are planning to question Polish officials as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year.
- 12:06 07/04/2011
Russian investigators on Thursday said Poland has not honored some of their requests regarding the probe in the jet crash last year which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.
- 22:26 06/04/2011
Poland's envoy to the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Edmund Klich said Wednesday that Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich pressured him following last year's deadly air crash in western Russia that killed then-Polish President Lech Kaczynski and a host of other top officials.
- 18:55 18/03/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Komorowski, in Smolensk on April 11, a year after the previous Polish president died in a plane crash near the western Russian city.
- 16:04 25/02/2011
The Polish Air Force chief and the commander of the presidential plane that crashed in western Russia last April quarreled over weather conditions at the plane's destination airport before takeoff, the TVN24 channel said on Friday.
- 01:02 22/02/2011
The crew of crashed Polish presidential plane clearly made a mistake when they tried to land in dangerous weather conditions.
- 17:37 18/02/2011
A second investigation into the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski said on Friday it had no evidence that would contradict the first probe's conclusion that the Polish pilots were to blame.
- 18:20 14/02/2011
Russian and Polish investigators will continue a joint probe into the crash of late president Lech Kaczynski's plane, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 17:50 09/02/2011
Polish military prosecutors on Wednesday questioned two Russian air traffic controllers from the airport where President Lech Kaczynski's plane crashed in April 2010, Polish Radio reported.
- 12:56 09/02/2011
The Polish Interior Ministry said on Wednesday it would delay the release of report on the causes of the April 2010 presidential plane crash in western Russia from February until late March.
- 11:55 09/02/2011
A Polish report on the causes of the April 2010 presidential plane crash in western Russia will not be ready in February as scheduled, the Polish Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 16:59 30/01/2011
Polish First Lady Anna Komorowska is considering going to the site of the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, west Russia, on the first anniversary of the tragedy.
- 19:05 28/01/2011
A Polish air force spokesman dismissed Russian media reports that pilots of the Polish presidential plane, which crashed last year in western Russia, acted according to a secret instruction.
- 17:32 26/01/2011
Polish military prosecutors have asked Russia for permission to question Smolensk air traffic controllers over their role in last year's fatal crash of President Lech Kaczynski's plane, Poland's TVN24 channel reported on Wednesday.
- 02:35 25/01/2011
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said Moscow and Warsaw should continue dialog despite controversies on last year's deadly plane crash in western Russia.
- 18:36 22/01/2011
Poland plans to use its second government Tu-154 plane to reconstruct the crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, a deputy head of the Polish investigation commission said.
- 17:49 21/01/2011
The investigation into the plane crash in western Russia that killed the Polish president was a thorough and transparent probe that drew the correct conclusions, pilots and flight safety experts say.
- 03:35 21/01/2011
The United States hopes that controversies surrounding the probe into last year's Polish presidential crash in western Russia will not affect ties between Russia and Poland, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Friday.
- 02:13 21/01/2011
Russian traffic controllers are not to blame for the April crash of a Polish presidential plane in western Russia, a leading expert working on a probe of the tragedy said.
- 20:39 19/01/2011
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the Polish opposition leader whose twin brother died in last year's plane crash in western Russia, blamed Russia for the tragedy on Wednesday and urged a rejection of Russia's report on its causes.
- 19:34 19/01/2011
A report by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) on the Polish presidential plane crash in western Russia is "one-sided," Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Wednesday.
- 16:51 19/01/2011
A report by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) on the Polish presidential plane crash in western Russia is "one-sided," Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Wednesday.
- 22:07 18/01/2011
The public release of recorded conversations between the Russian air traffic controllers and the crew of the crashed Polish presidential plane is unprecedented, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said on Tuesday.
- 20:41 18/01/2011
Russian air traffic controllers were under pressure, made a number of errors and failed to warn the Polish pilots that they were off course, a Polish commission investigating the Smolensk air crash said on Tuesday.
- 19:04 18/01/2011
Russian air traffic controllers were under pressure, made a number of errors and failed to warn the Polish pilots that they were off course, a Polish commission investigating the Smolensk air crash said on Tuesday.
- 12:21 18/01/2011
The Polish Interior Ministry will publish later on Tuesday records of conversations between the pilots of the presidential plane that crashed in western Russia and air traffic controllers, Poland's TVN24 channel said.
- 12:46 17/01/2011
The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) has released its report on the cause of the plane crash that killed a Polish delegation, including President Lech Kaczynski. The plane was bound for Smolensk, Russia. The officials were to attend a ceremony commemorating the WWII-era massacre of Polish officers that occurred in nearby Katyn.
- 12:30 17/01/2011
Poland's report on the causes of the Kaczynski presidential plane crash will be unveiled in February, local media said, citing a spokeswoman for polish Interior Ministry, Malgorzata Wozniak.
- 19:08 15/01/2011
Moscow handed over to Warsaw all case materials into investigation of the Polish president's plane crash last year in Russia, an expert close to the investigation said.
- 14:50 15/01/2011
Former Polish President Lech Walesa believes Russia deserves recognition and thanks and not "sputtering" over power in the investigations over the presidential plane crash in Smolensk that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April.
- 13:05 14/01/2011
Poland has asked Russia to hand over the cockpit voice recordings, not just transcripts, from the Polish president's plane that crashed in Russia last year, the Polish Interior Ministry said on Friday.
- 00:01 14/01/2011
Poland might have to turn to international agencies if expert negotiations with Russia fail to provide an agreement over the causes of the Polish presidential plane crash.
- 23:33 13/01/2011
Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday that Moscow shares the Polish prime minister's resolve to maintain progress toward better relations despite Polish criticism of the Russian investigation into the plane crash last year that killed Poland's president.
- 22:49 13/01/2011 RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry Babich
Russia has published the report of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) on the causes of the April plane crash in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people died. As expected, its conclusions have outraged the bulk of Poland's political elite.
- 21:01 13/01/2011
Jaroslaw Kaczynski furiously criticized on Thursday Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk for his response to Russia's report on the plane crash that killed his twin, President Lech Kaczynski, and 95 others last April.
- 17:08 13/01/2011
Poland's opposition Law and Justice party has called for an emergency meeting of the lower house of parliament to issue a resolution rejecting the findings of the Russian report on the Polish presidential plane crash.
- 16:51 13/01/2011
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with ministers on Thursday to discuss Russia's probe into the presidential plane crash, the PAP news agency said.
- 14:49 13/01/2011
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hit out on Thursday at criticism of the investigation into the plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April 2010.
- 05:51 13/01/2011
Russian air traffic controllers should have banned any landing attempt by the crashed Polish presidential plane crew, Polish Interior Minister Jerzy Miller said.
- 19:54 12/01/2011
Poland said Russia took into account all Warsaw's comments and queries in a report on the Polish presidential plane crash on April 10 that killed then President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other top officials, but did not reflect all of them in the new report, Polish Interior Minister Jerzy Miller said.
- 19:05 12/01/2011
Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) released a video flight reconstruction of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s Tu-154 aircraft that crashed last year in Russia. It is a 3D reconstruction with recorded voices of the crew.
- 17:31 12/01/2011
The late Polish president's twin brother and opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski criticized on Wednesday the Russian investigation of the plane crash that killed Lech Kaczynski and 95 other top officials in April 2010.
- 16:25 12/01/2011
Russian investigators need to study a range of official documents and probes and then will give a conclusion on the causes of the plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April 2010, an official investigations spokesman, Vladimir Markin, said on Wednesday.
- 15:59 12/01/2011
Pilot error was the main cause of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other top officials in April 2010, a Russian investigative team said in a new report released on Wednesday.
- 15:43 12/01/2011
The final report of the plane crash which killed the Polish president and 95 others in April is now available on the RIA Novosti website.
- 15:27 12/01/2011
Flaws in flight preparation and poor pilot training led to the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other top officials in April 2010, Russian investigators said in a new report released on Wednesday.
- 14:29 12/01/2011
The presence of the Polish Air Force Chief in the cockpit of the Polish presidential plane that crashed in Russia in April made the crew take "unjustified risk," the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said on Wednesday.
- 14:19 12/01/2011
Pilot error was the main cause of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other top officials in April 2010, a Russian investigative team said in a new report released on Wednesday.
- 13:04 12/01/2011
The presence of the Polish Air Force Chief in the cockpit of the Polish presidential plane that crashed in Russia last April had a "psychological impact" on the crew, the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said on Wednesday.
- 12:59 12/01/2011
The main cause of the plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April 2010 was the crew's decision not to land at a reserve airfield, the head of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said on Wednesday.
- 12:44 12/01/2011
The crew of the Polish presidential jet that crashed in Russia last year were not informed of the weather conditions before takeoff, the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said on Wednesday.
- 12:42 12/01/2011
The main cause of the Polish Presidential plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April 2010 was the crew's decision not to land at a reserve airfield, the head of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina said on Wednesday.
- 12:33 12/01/2011
The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) has sent Poland its final report on the plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
- 11:27 12/01/2011
The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) has sent Poland a final report of the deadly plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April 2010.
- 07:43 05/01/2011
The Polish president's visit to Russia on the anniversary of last year's deadly plane crash depends on how the two states proceed with the investigation into causes of the tragedy.
- 00:59 05/01/2011
Last year's crash of a Polish presidential plane in western Russia was caused by the crew's decision to land, but Russian air traffic controllers are also to blame.
- 22:48 03/01/2011
One of the lawyers for the relatives of the victims of April crash of a Polish presidential plane in western Russia on Monday called on the Warsaw Military Prosecutor's Office to question country's Prime Minister Donald Tusk as soon as possible, the Polish TVN24 TV channel reported.
- 15:50 22/12/2010
The lawyer involved in the investigation of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski questioned on Wednesday the authenticity of the body sent to Poland from Russia, Polish media reported.
- 21:09 21/12/2010 RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry Babich
The barometer of Russian-Polish relations showed fair weather for several months in the immediate aftermath of the Smolensk air crash. Now someone seems to be willing it to fall.
- 17:57 17/12/2010
Russian experts will address Poland's concerns over a report on the causes of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people in western Russia in April, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexei Sazonov said on Friday.
- 14:21 17/12/2010
Poland can not accept Russia's report on the causes of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 people other people in western Russia this April, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was quoted as saying on Friday.
- 07:51 12/12/2010
The crash of a Polish presidential plane in Western Russia this April was caused by 12 factors.
- 07:48 06/12/2010
Russia's investigation of April's air crash that killed then Polish president Lech Kaczynski is transparent.
- 17:05 02/12/2010
The presidents of Russia and Poland, Dmitry Medvedev and Bronislaw Komorowski, are to give their assessment of the probe into the deadly plane crash which killed then President Lech Kaczynski in April.
- 03:00 01/12/2010
Poland hopes to make public a technical report on the April plane crash, that killed the Polish president and 95 others near Russia's Smolensk, next year in January.
- 13:32 17/11/2010
Two members of the Polish opposition Law and Justice party have arrived in the United States to ask the country for help in investigating the Polish plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, Poland's TVN24 channel said on Wednesday.
- 03:55 15/11/2010
Polish opposition politician Jaroslaw Kaczynski is set to seek U.S. help in investigating the plane crash in western Russia, in which his twin brother, then president Lech Kaczynski, died in April.
- 20:03 20/10/2010
Russia on Wednesday handed to Polish investigators a detailed technical report on the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others near Smolensk in April.
- 07:04 18/10/2010
Poland's special envoy to the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), Edmund Klich, will visit Moscow on Monday to study the committee's probe into the April crash of a Polish presidential plane in western Russia.
- 03:14 16/10/2010
The Polish government has allocated additional funds to the Institute of Judicial Expertise in Krakow investigating the causes of a plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
- 05:22 13/10/2010
Polish archeologists will on Wednesday start inspecting the site of April's Polish presidential plane crash near the western Russian city of Smolensk. Their work on the tragedy site will last until October 27.
- 14:15 10/10/2010
Poles and Russians together lived through the recent tragedy of the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his accompanying officials, Russia's first lady Svetlana Medvedeva said at a ceremony to commemorate the victims of April's deadly plane crash in western Russia.
- 06:46 10/10/2010
The families of those killed in April's deadly plane crash in western Russia that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski will attend the tragedy site on Sunday.
- 04:35 06/10/2010
Polish opposition party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he would not attend memorial events in western Russia to mark six months since the deadly plane crash claimed the life of his twin brother.
- 06:22 03/10/2010
Polish archaeologists will conduct excavations near the western Russian city of Smolensk where a Polish presidential plane crashed in April.
- 22:50 23/09/2010
The Polish and Russian governments should assume full responsibility for the Smolensk air disaster and Prime Minister Donald Tusk should resign, Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Thursday.
- 18:19 22/09/2010
Polish experts working in Moscow on a probe into the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others near Smolensk in April are "dissatisfied" with the documents supplied by the Russia side, Poland's TVN24 channel said on Wednesday.
- 18:34 12/09/2010
Polish military prosecutors have questioned more than 300 witnesses during their investigation into the April plane crash in western Russia that killed Poland's president, the country's attorney general said.
- 06:34 11/09/2010
Jaroslaw Kaczynski called on the country's president, prime minister and other top officials to resign over poor investigation into the plane crash in which his twin brother died.
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