A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed near the Smolensk airport in western Russia Saturday, killing the president and all 96 people on board.

Lech Kaczynski, took office after winning the presidential election run-off in October, 2005. Before that, he was Mayor of the country's capital city Warsaw.

Kaczynski was born in Warsaw in June, 1949. He and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, are child movie stars who won fame in the 1962 movie "The Two Who Stole the Moon," about two troublemakers who try to get rich by stealing the moon and selling it.

Kaczynski, 60, had been a law professor at Gdansk University from 1991 to 1997. Later he taught at the Law School of Warsaw University, where he graduated in 1971.

The president, a Solidarity activist, became a senator in 1991 after serving as a representative to the National Assembly since 1989.

He had been the country's prosecutor-general and justice minister in a previous center-right government before he was elected the mayor of Warsaw in 2002.

Kaczynski became well known for he banned the Warsaw gay movement parade in 2004 and 2005, locally known as the Parada Rownosci, stating the lack of necessary documentation by organizers as the reason.

Kaczynski and Jaroslaw formed the socially conservative Law and Justice party in 2001 under the banner of developing the country's education and economy, fighting corruption and reforming rural areas.

He was married to an economist and has one daughter.

中文翻译介绍如下:

莱赫·卡钦斯基 (Lech Kaczynski) 1949年6月18日出生于波兰首都华沙一个普通的工人家庭。儿童时代，他与孪生哥哥雅罗斯瓦夫·卡钦斯基因在影片《偷月二人行》中成功扮演一对“小无赖”而成为轰动一时的童星。1971年，卡钦斯基与哥哥一起毕业于华沙大学法律系，10年后又分别获得法律学博士学位。1991年至1997年，卡钦斯基在格但斯克大学法学院任职，1998年任教于华沙大学。

卡钦斯基1977年步入政坛，先后在工人防御委员会仲裁处、自由工会同盟和团结工会工作。1981年，他参加了第一届国民议会，1989年至1991年为参议员，1991年至1993年为众议员。1991年至1992年，他曾出任行政和内务事务委员会主席，1992年至1995年任波兰最高检察院院长。2000年6月至2001年7月，卡钦斯基任司法部长，2002年11月出任华沙市市长。

2001年，卡钦斯基与他的哥哥共同组建了法律与公正党，提出了发展教育和经济、与贪污腐败作斗争、对农村进行结构改造等主张，并得到波兰中下层百姓的欢迎与支持。2005年10月当选为波兰总统，同年12月宣誓就职。

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