Russia grants permission for delayed official opening of Miednoje cemetery

Russia has granted all the necessary permits to allow the official opening of the Miednoje cemetery to take place on Sept. 2. The opening ceremony had initially been planned for June 10. The cemetery is on the site where Polish officers were murdered by the Soviet secret-police (NKVD) in 1940. Polish officers executed in neighboring Ukraine and Belarus at the same time are also buried there. A special train to carry the families of the deceased has been arranged. (Rzeczpospolita, page A1) S.M.