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RIA: Seven injured as plane crash-lands near Moscowhttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20100322/158272190.html 06:5622/03/2010 Two people were seriously injured and five more sought medical assistance after a Tu-204 plane crash-landed near a Moscow airport on Monday, a source in the regional emergencies service said. Eight crew members were onboard the aircraft en route from the Egyptian resort of Hurghada, when it apparently made a belly landing. The plane was performing a landing in the Domodedovo Airport in poor weather conditions with limited visibility when it went off radars approximately one km (0.6 miles) from the runway. The search and rescue team found the damaged aircraft in woodland near the airport and evacuated the crew. A committee was set up to investigate the cause of the accident. MOSCOW, March 22 (RIA Novosti) Russia Today: Passenger jet crash lands near Moscow airporthttp://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-22/plane-crash-domodedovo-moscow.html/print 22 March, 2010, 04:34 A Russian TU-204 jet collapsed while landing in a field near Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Two crew members were taken to hospital with injuries. The plane coming from Khurgada, Egypt, was just a few kilometers away from the landing strip, said a source in the law-enforcement agencies, according to Interfax. It made a belly-landing in a field near Aviagorodok village. “At 2.35 a.m. Moscow time, a TU-204 plane belonging to Aviastar Tour Company on its way from Egypt to Moscow, when approaching the Moscow Domodedovo airport, lost altitude and made an emergency landing in a wooded area about one kilometer from the runway,” Elena Galanova, a spokeswoman for Moscow Domodedovo airport, told RT. “There were no passengers on board, and there were 9 crew members – all of them survived. Two of them were hospitalized in critical condition. The case is being investigated; and search and rescue teams are working at the scene.” According to the latest information, seven of the crew members are now at the hospital. It’s a second crash landing for this airplane, according to a law enforcement source, Interfax reports. The same passenger plane made an emergency landing at Domodedovo airport a day ago. At 4 a.m. on Sunday, March 22, the same plane was flying from Moscow to Khurgada with passengers onboard. At a distance of about 300 kilometers south of Moscow the crew detected fumes in the cockpit and decided to go back. At 6 a.m. the plane successfully landed at Domodedovo airport. The minor failure was repaired and the plane took off to Khurgada again. It was coming back empty when another crash landing occurred. A special commission will investigate the crash of TU 204, said Sergey Izvolsky from Rosaviation. It will include representatives of the Interstate Aviation Committee, Rosaviation and other federal bodies. The plane does not have any major damage. The search for the flight recorders is underway. Voice of Russia: International polar station gets supplieshttp://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/22/5499553.html
A first batch of cargo was delivered to the international polar station Borneo on Monday in the midst of poor weather conditions, news agencies have reported. The mission was implemented by Russian Air Force pilots, who coped with the difficult task of dropping cargo containers on the ice as night was closing in. The next three months will see personnel of the Borneo ice station grapple with an array of scientific experiments in the Arctic, which will add significantly to tackling climate change. Itar-Tass: 130 people saved from cars stuck in snowdrifts on Sakhalin http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14941439&PageNum=0 22.03.2010, 02.05 VLADIVOSTOK, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- A total 130 people were saved from motor vehicles stuck in snowdrifts on Russia’s Far Eastern Sakhalin island, local emergencies service told Itar-Tass on Monday. A total of 35 motor vehicles, including two KAMAZ trucks, got stuck in snow banks near the villages of Okhotskoye and Vostochnoye (Sakhalin’s southern areas). According to reports coming from Sakhalin, the height of snow banks reaches 1.5 meters. Snow is accompanied by strongest winds. This is the most sever storm in the past few years.
22.03.2010, 11.55 CHELYABINSK, March 22 (Itar-Tass) - The deputies of the Legislative Assembly in the Chelyabinsk Region voted unanimously for vesting Mikhail Yurevich with the powers of governor. President Dmitry Medvedev nominated Yurevich as a candidate for governor on March 15. The United Russia leadership presented to Dmitry Medvedev the list of five candidates – a State Duma deputy Mikhail Grishankov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Andrei Dementyev, Deputy Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Yuri Klepov, Deputy Minister of Regional Development Roman Panov and Chelyabinsk Mayor Mikhail Yurevich. Governor Pyotr Sumin, 63, who has headed the region since 1996 with his term in office to expire in April, refused himself from the nomination for a new term, explaining his step by the conviction that younger personnel should be attracted to manage the regions.
The head of the Yekaterinburg branch of the ruling United Russia party has resigned following the party's unsatisfactory performance in recent local elections, a party spokesman said on Monday. Andrei Rusakov said the branch's former chief Viktor Sheptiy "signed a letter of resignation at a meeting of the general council on Saturday," citing unsatisfactory poll results. Yekaterinburg is the administrative center of the Sverdlovsk Region, where no United Russia candidate was successful in mayoral elections, while the party gained only 40% of the overall vote, instead of the expected 50-60%. While he did not disclose who may head the branch after Sheptiy's resignation is officially ratified at the party's headquarters in Moscow, some commentators say Yelena Chechunova, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's regional aide, is the most likely replacement. Elections to local authorities, which were seen by many in the West as a litmus test for the country's ruling party, were held on March 14 in 76 out of 83 regions from the Far East to European Russia amid growing public frustration with the government's economic policies. While Putin's United Russia garnered an overall majority in each of the eight regional legislative polls, it fell far short of expectations, with the party winning over half of the votes cast in only four of the eight regions. The Russian opposition parties said they were "satisfied" with the poll results. Opposition factions walked out of parliament during the October 2009 regional polls, won in a landslide by United Russia, dubbing them a sham. On Saturday, thousands of people across Russia took to the streets under the banner of the so-called "Day of Wrath" in protest against the government's policies. At least 70 protesters were detained by police on downtown Moscow's Pushkin Square after they began to shout "Freedom!" and "This is our city!" YEKATERINBURG, March 22 (RIA Novosti) Directory: gifiles -> attach attach -> British Forces – Akrioti, Greece Griffin Fighter Squadron (84 Squadron raf) MoD announced possible Typhoon and Tornado arrivals to the base France attach -> Russia 110204 Basic Political Developments attach -> Unclassified//for official use only attach -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution Download 423.29 Kb. Share with your friends:
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