President blocks government's candidate as Polish ambassador to Russia

The Foreign Ministry's candidate for ambassador to Russia is being blocked by President Aleksander Kwasnsiewski. Zycie has learned the candidate, Agnieszka Madziak-Miszewska was proposed by Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek and the former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek. She had previously worked in Moscow as the charge d'affairs and is currently the head of the International Relations Center and the editor of Wiez. According to the Zycie sources, the reason Kwasniewski has not endorsed Madziak-Miszewska is that she was formerly the Prime Minister's adviser and the President wants to keep his man, Andrzej Zalucki, in the position in case the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) comes to power in the next election. (Zycie, page 1)