NY Times: Far from aggravating frictions in Russian-Polish relations, as initially feared, the plane crash that killed Poland’s president and a swath of the upper echelon of politicians and military leaders on Saturday appears to have achieved the opposite effect, encouraging kindness and understanding on both sides. Whether thesympathy develops into a new era of cooperation or evaporates with the first concrete dispute, it is a chance that politicians say must be seized. “I don’t know whether there will be a political breakthrough, because we have many opposing interests with Russia,” Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, said in an interview on a Polish radio station Monday. “But we already have an emotional breakthrough. And that is already a great deal.”
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