List of some who died in Russian plane crash

April 10, 2010 06:26 pm | Updated 06:26 pm IST - MOSCOW

Top U.S. commander for Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, right, and Poland's chief of military staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, left, chat during a welcoming ceremony in Warsaw. File photo: AP.

Top U.S. commander for Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, right, and Poland's chief of military staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, left, chat during a welcoming ceremony in Warsaw. File photo: AP.

Some of those who died in the crash of Poland’s presidential plane, according to the Law and Justice Party, founded by President Lech Kaczynshi.

Lech Kaczysnki - Polish president

Maria Kaczynska - The president’s wife

Ryszard Kaczorowski - last president of the anti-Communist government-in-exile in London, 1989-90. The government-in-exile was set up after the pre-war Warsaw government was forced to flee the Nazis in 1939.

Aleksander Szczyglo - head of the National Security Office and former defence minister

Pawel Wypych - presidential aide

Mariusz Handzlik - presidential aide

Jerzy Szmajdzinski - deputy parliament speaker and former defence minister

Andrzej Kremer - Deputy Foreign Minister

Gen. Franciszek Gagor - head of the army chief of staff

Andrzej Przewoznik - minister in charge of WWII memorials

Slawomir Skrzypek - head of the National Bank of Poland

Janusz Kurtyka - head of the National Remembrance Institute, a state body that investigates communist-era crimes

Przemyslaw Gosiewski - lawmaker

Zbigniew Wassermann - lawmaker

Grzegorz Dolniak - lawmaker

Janusz Kochanowski - civil rights commissioner

Bishop Tadeusz Ploski - army chaplain

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