Forty three percent of Poles describe Polish-Russian relations are “bad”, according to a survey just released by CBOS public opinion research centre.

Twelve percent of those polled say relations between Warsaw and Moscow are good and just over 40 percent said they are moderate.

The CBOS pollsters observe in their latest report that opinions on the state of Russian-Polish relations have returned to levels before April 2010, which saw the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, western Russia killing Lech Kaczynski and 05 others including the First Lady Maria.

Sixty two percent of Poles (7 percentage points less than last September) are convinced that friendly relations with Russia are possible; 32 percent (a rise by 10 percentage points) are sceptical that they can ever be normalised.

Fifty four percent of those interviewed by CBOS blame both Russia and Poland for the Smolensk air crash, 19 percent put the blame on Poland and 17 percent on Russia.

Over 70 percent of Poles give Russia bad marks for the way it has investigated the Smolensk catastrophe. (kk)