Moscow: Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.
The Emergencies Ministry says none of the passengers and crew members were injured by the fire on the landing gear of the Boeing 737 at Vnukovo Airport on Saturday.
A ministry statement said the plane belonging to Russian carrier UTair (YOOT-air) was flying to Moscow from the southern city of Stavropol.
The ministry said it was carrying 136 passengers and six crew members, but Russian news agencies quoted the airline as saying there were 129 passengers....
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06:32 AM, May 19, 2013
United Nations: The UN General Assembly condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and praised the opposition on Wednesday, but a decline in support for the resolution suggested growing unease about extremism among Syria's fractious rebels. While the non-binding text has no legal force, resolutions of the 193-nation assembly can carry significant moral and political weight. There were 107 votes in favor, 12 against and 59 abstentions - a drop in...
03:26 AM, May 16, 2013
Moscow: Russia expelled a US diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA. Apparently detained in an incongruous-looking blond wig, with props reminiscent of a schoolboy's spy kit, US Embassy Third Secretary Ryan Fogle hardly looked like a Cold War secret agent. But the announcement still...
09:46 AM, May 15, 2013
Moscow: A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, including two nurses, emergency officials said. A third nurse managed to save two patients and they were the only three thought to have survived, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the Health Ministry. Police said the fire, which broke out at about 2 am local time (7 pm Eastern, 2300 GMT) in the...
08:06 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Moscow: Claiming that his sons were "victims of provocation", the father of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings wants to travel to the US and seek justice. Anzor Tsarnaev, a resident of the republic of Dagestan, maintained that his sons are not criminals but "victims of provocation" despite all the reports from the US authorities, Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti reported. "I don't know where my son...
09:32 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev each earned almost 5.8 million rubles (about $187,000) in 2012, according to their tax reports. The reports, posted on the president's and the government's websites, said that the president's annual income rose by almost 2.1 million rubles (about $67,500) last year from 3.7 million rubles ($119,000) in 2011. Putin owns a plot of land, an apartment and a garage, as...
10:08 AM, Apr 13, 2013
A canine dog from the small village of Budochka in Belarus has inherited a whopping $1 million from a US citizen. The ten-year-old dog named Zhulik inherited the fortune from late John Fyodorov, who was born in Budochka but migrated to the US after World War II, according to local newspaper Respublika Daily. ...
05:25 PM, Apr 01, 2013
A Moscow traffic policeman, who refused to accept a $1.5 million bribe and turned in the attempted briber, is set to receive a state award for his honesty. ...
07:40 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Talks in Moscow on a possible funding lifeline from Russia to Cyprus ended without result, further cutting the island's options for raising the billions of euros it needs to find by Monday to avert a financial meltdown. ...
01:57 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The world wrestling federation will hold an extraordinary congress in May to elect a new president as the ancient sport battles to maintain its place on the Olympic programme. ...
10:41 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Three armed men broke out a female patient from one of Moscow's most famous psychiatric hospitals in a daring raid believed to have been led by the woman's fiance. The woman, Anna Pavlenkova, reported to be 32 or 34-years-old, escaped from the Gannushkin Hospital after a visit from the three men. ...
11:12 AM, Feb 14, 2013
Footage of Pussy Riot's irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral has been banned in Russia. ...
11:12 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Russia will resume a long-dormant quest to explore the moon by sending an unmanned probe there in 2015, the head of the space agency was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The craft, called Luna-Glob, or Moon-Globe, will be carried by the first rocket to blast off from a new facility that Russia is building in its far eastern Amur region, Roskosmos director Vladimir Popovkin said, according to the Interfax news...
07:40 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Thousands of demonstrators gathered for a march in Moscow on Sunday to protest against a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, saying President Vladimir Putin's government had made orphans pawns in a political dispute. Kremlin critics and other opponents of the ban converged on a central boulevard in freezing temperatures, some chanting "Shame!" and "Putin is a scoundrel!" or holding banners condemning lawmakers who backed the law prohibiting adoptions. ...
09:35 AM, Jan 14, 2013
A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing two people. There were conflicting reports as to how many people were aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings in the accident at Vnukovo Airport, ranging from eight to 12. ...
08:47 PM, Dec 29, 2012
The Iskcon temple's spokesperson said that they have just three weeks left, after which the existing facility will be demolished. ...
08:16 PM, Dec 24, 2012
A state television presenter in Russia's volatile North Caucasus was shot dead late on Wednesday, a killing federal investigators said may have been meant as a warning to journalists reporting on an Islamist insurgency. Kazbek Gekkiyev, 28, who worked for a local channel of Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, was killed in Nalchik, capital of the internal republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the federal Investigative Committee said. ...
10:56 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Kris Commons smashed home a controversial late penalty to earn Celtic a 2-1 victory over Spartak Moscow. ...
11:37 AM, Dec 06, 2012
An anthropomorphic sparrow will serve as the mascot for the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. ...
11:14 PM, Dec 05, 2012
