MOSCOW, Russia — On Monday investigators honed in on pilot error as the most likely cause of the Saturday plane crashthat killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, but questions remained about the crew’s decision to land in Smolensk — home of a derelict airport that has spotlighted for the world Russia’s aging infrastructure.

WARSAW, Poland — Polish president Lech Kaczynski, 60, was killed in an air crash near the Russian city of Smolensk on Saturday morning along with 95 other people, after the plane tried repeatedly to land in very foggy conditions. The crash also killed Kaczynski's wife, Maria, the governor of the central bank, Slawomir Skrzypek, the heads of Poland's army, navy, air force and special forces, as well as many other senior politicians and dignitaries.

WARSAW, Poland — Polish women have long been placed on a pedestal — hand kissing only went out of fashion in the last decade — but that does not translate into senior positions in politics and business. That’s why the Polish parliament is considering a bill that would mandate that either half or a third of places on electoral lists be reserved for women. But the move has aroused enormous controversy — even within the ruling centrist Civic Platform party — and it looks unlikely to become law before local elections at the end of this year.

Update: Bronislaw Komorowski won the election to become the Civic Platform party's candidate for Poland's president with 68.5 percent of the vote. In Anne Applebaum's amusing take on being the wife of a presidential candidate, specifically Komorowski's opponent Radek Sikorski, Poland's primary seems to share essential qualities with the American version.