Jarosław Kurski
Writer and columnist Jarosław Kurski (b. 1963) has been first deputy editor in chief of Gazeta Wyborcza since 2007. He is the author of Wódz (The Leader), a book about Lech Wałęsa, for whom he was spokesman from 1989 to 1990.
The solidarity shown by the Russian authorities in the wake of the 10 April air disaster in Smolensk could, which killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski and a swath of the country's political and military elite, is another step forward in the much-postponed rapprochement between Warsaw and Moscow, 70 years after the Katyn massacre.