EU demands Russia give details on Katyn

11th December 2009

The Russian government has until 19th March 2010 to clarify its judicial proceedings on the 1940 Katyn massacre says the European Court of Human Rights.

Approximately 22,000 Poles were murdered by the NKVD during WWII and now Moscow has been ordered to re-open its archives which were closed in 2004.

Historian Professor Andrzej Nowak, of Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, told Rzeczpospolita that the fast response of the European Court is of great importance for both Poland and Russia.

“I have noticed a positive change in the attitude of Russia [towards the case] recently,” he says.
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