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.
Updated: 12 April 2010
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.