Poland on Sunday said goodbye to President...

They were interred in Krakow"s historic Wawel Cathedral, the main burial site for Polish monarchs for several centuries, in the crypt that holds Jozef_Pilsudski, a driving force behind Poland"s reemergence as an independent state after World War I.

About 150,000 people thronged the streets of the city to pay their last respects, and Polish and foreign leaders including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended the state funeral service in St. Mary"s Basilica.

The Russian leader and Poland"s acting president, Bronislaw Komorowski, said the common mourning of their two countries" people would drive the future development of Russian-Polish relations.

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At least 45,000 people pressed into the square outside the church where the leaders gathered for the funeral Mass. Another 100,000 flocked to other areas of the city and lined the route of the funeral procession from St. Mary"s to Wawel Cathedral.

As well as Medvedev, the presidents of Ukraine,

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