Celebrations of the eighth anniversary of the crash of the Polish government plane Thomson Reuters By Marcin Goclowski

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party marked on Tuesday the end of monthly rallies commemorating the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, hoping to ease social tensions before a series of elections. The ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is the president’s surviving twin brother, paid tribute to the 96 victims in a solemn ceremony Tuesday in Warsaw that began at 8.41 a.m., the exact time of the crash on April 10, 2010, near the Smolensk airport. Warsaw (AFP) - Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday demanded that Russia hand over the wreckage of a 2010 presidential plane crash that has stoked friction with Moscow and divisions at home as Warsaw marked eight years since the disaster.
Poland's ruling Law and Justice unveils a new monument on the eighth anniversary of the disaster, which killed 96 including then-President Lech Kaczyński near Smolensk, Russia. Initial investigations primarily blamed errors on the flight crew but Poland is conducting a new investigation with a new report expected to claim Russian air traffic controllers purposely misled the jet about its location before it was destroyed in an explosion.