A total of 96 people died when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and a delegation of senior officials crashed in west Russia on Saturday, Russia"s Emergencies Ministry said.
Some 40 Olympic facilities will be fully completed in the Winter Olympic 2014 host city of Sochi by the end of 2010, and 144 will be under construction, a Russian deputy premier said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his new Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych promised on Friday a big improvement in ties between Moscow and Kiev.