President Lech Kaczynski might pay a visit to Moscow in May to take part in the celebrations of the 65 anniversary of the end of WW II.  

“The president would like to go to Moscow but not at all costs. He would like to avoid the situation which occurred when the former president Aleksander Kwasniewski went to Moscow on the same occasion in 2005 and was humiliated by Russians because they did not mention Poland’s contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany,” said a spokesperson at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.

Kaczynski’s statements could be another  sign of thawing relations between Moscow and Warsaw. Yesterday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk accepted an invitation from Vladimir Putin to attend the 70 anniversary of the 1940 Katyn massacre when thousands of Polish officers were murdered by the Soviet NKVD, a forerunner to the KGB. (mg/pg)