Erlier today, BBC reported that the Polish president Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash in Russia (link). Besides the president, 80 or so other senior politicians died, leaving Poland in a sort of political and constitutional vacuum. It will be interesting to see what’s next for the Polish people.
Politically, Kaczynski was on the centre-right side of the political spectrum: surprisingly, Poland has been ruled by the right since it got rid of the communist party. Of course, the only reason I bring up the death of the Polish president is because he was featured in an older posting (“Oh NOES!”): a couple of years, Poland was the first country that had an identical twin take the highest offices (that of President and Prime-Minister). I don’t think that we’ll see that again for a long while.