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Superjet – Down but not out?

May 16, 2012 Vladimir Kryuchkov, Grigory Sanin, Konstantin Ugodnikov, Itogi
Experts are divided over the prospects for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 after the tragic crash in Indonesia

Jet crash caused by human error?

May 10, 2012 Kommersant
Sukhoi SuperJet 100 crash in Indonesia has experts debating over the human factor in the accident

Airliner crash kills at least 31

April 2, 2012 Russia Today TV Channel, RIA Novosti
A passenger plane has crashed early Monday in Russia's Tyumen region. The country’s Emergencies Ministry says at least 31 people out of 43 were killed

Top Russian hockey team perishes in crash

September 9, 2011 Sergei Mashkin, Alexei Dospekhov, Alexandr Gabuyev, Kommersant
A horrific plane crash takes the lives of one of Russia’s best hockey teams. The safety record of Russian aviation is dealt a major blow

Tragedy on the Volga, and in Siberia

July 11, 2011 Combined reports
More than forty Russian tourists are still missing after the 56-year-old tourist ship sank in the Volga River on Sunday

Plane crash in northwest Russia

June 21, 2011 RIA Novosti
44 killed, including 8 foreigners

Inside Chernobyl today

April 26, 2011 Alexander Emelyanenkov
More than 4,400 people still work at the plant, maintaining the facility to prevent the situation from getting any worse

The invisible menace goes to ground

April 19, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear accident, life goes on around Ukraine’s Chernobyl site

“There are no excuses”

April 13, 2011 Kommersant
Conflicting theories about how Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko could take political advantage of the recent attack in the Minsk Metro abound

Working past Smolensk

April 11, 2011 Philip Boyes, Warsaw
One year on, most Poles are ready to move beyond the tragedy, but the relationship between Poland and Russia remains tense and fragile

Putin orders gas for crisis-hit Japan

March 14, 2011 Olga Razumovskaya, The Moscow Times
Two tankers with LNG and a planeload of blankets may be what it takes to start easing Russian-Japanese hostilities over a 65-year island dispute

Deadly blast at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport

January 24, 2011 Russia Today TV Channel, Business New Europe, Combined reports
Up to 35 people have been killed in an explosion at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport according to the Russian Health Ministry. Some 130 more are said to have been injured

Smolensk tragedy report continues to complicate Russian-Polish relations

January 21, 2011 Wojciech Kosc
Although Russia may think last week's official report on the crash in Smolensk that killed President Lech Kaczyński put the matter to rest, in Poland it only fanned the flames of debate.

Authorities investigate TU-154 crash in Surgut

January 3, 2011 Combined reports
A crash in Siberia on New Year's Day that killed three people is only the latest tragedy involving Tupolev aircraft.

The unexpected hero

December 23, 2010 Svetlana Smetanina
An ordinary man in the Russian taiga saved 80 lives just by doing the right thing without any expectation of reward.

GLONASS hits a snag

December 7, 2010 Dmitry Butrin, Ivan Konovalov and Tatyana Grishina, Kommersant
Three satellites fell from orbit into the Pacific Ocean after a malfunction during launch.

Pilot error probed in Domodedovo crash

December 6, 2010 Alexandra Odynova, the Moscow Times
Investigators were considering Sunday whether the pilots who crash-landed a Tu-154 at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport over the weekend were heroes for saving 165 of the 167 people on board or responsible for the emergency that required the landing.

The secrets that drowned with Kursk

August 12, 2010 Ivan Egorov, Rossiyskaya gazeta
The sunken nuclear submarine will never reveal the reason for the accident

Kemerovo: The high price of coal

June 29, 2010 Natalya Fedotova
A region in Siberia’s south boasts a wealth of coal reserves, but a recent disaster at one of its largest mines has focused attention on the plight of Russia’s miners

Hayward faces Moscow grilling

June 29, 2010 Artem Zagorodnov, Russia Now
Oil: Medvedev wants legal framework for oil spills
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