The Polish opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party wants the European Parliament resolution on democracy in Russia to refer to the wreck of the plane that crashed in 2010 killing the then Polish president, Lech Kaczyński.

The European Parliament is to pass a resolution on the state of democracy in Russia in the wake of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, in broad daylight in Moscow.

The PiS party, led by the deceased president’s twin brother, Jarosław Kaczyński, is hopeful of including in the text reference to the wreck of the plane, in which he died.

Russia has so far declined to return the wreck. On April 10 falls the fifth anniversary of the disaster, which took place in Smolensk in western Russia. (an)

Source: PAP