Poland buries its President in a funeral that was kind of a reunion of the ex-Soviet bloc, as only those traveling from the East could fly.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended a funeral Mass for the late Polish president and his wife.

From The Wall Street Journal:

Volcanic ash kept most Western leaders away from the lavish state funeral of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Sunday, but not Russia President Dmitry Medvedev.

The attendance of the Russian president at a funeral filled with Catholic and Polish military pomp underscored Moscow's efforts to improve relations since last Saturday's air disaster. Mr. Kaczynski and 95 others died on April 10, when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to Smolensk airport, in western Russia.

Nature kept most Western leaders away in the form of volcanic ash from Iceland that closed airspace over Western and Central Europe. That turned the funeral into a kind of reunion of the ex-Soviet bloc, as only those traveling from the East could fly. But the importance of Mr. Medvedev's presence was evident.

Leaders from Central Europe . . . made the journey by land, while those from further east were able to fly through still clearer skies.