Russian president calls Kwasniewski about discovery of Polish mass grave

Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin told President Aleksander Kwasniewski about the discovery of mass graves of Polish officers near the town of Smolensk murdered by Soviet forces during World War II. Putin assured Kwasniewski that the Russian prosecutors office would be ordered to conduct a careful examination. He also proposed Polish experts join them. The case of Polish officers murdered on Stalin's order still remains unsolved. Poles still do not know the names or the burial places of more than 7,000 officers. Russian authorities still have not closed the investigation on Polish soldiers murdered in Katyn. The 60th anniversary of the massacre will be commemorated in Katyn today. (Zycie, page 1) A.D.