Business

The bodies of the 97 people who died when...

The Soviet-made TU-154 hit the top of trees as it attempted to land at a Smolensk airport at 10:50 a.m. (06:50 GMT). There were no survivors.

Kaczynski"s wife and a delegation of senior Polish officials, including the chief of the General Staff and the head of the national bank, were also on board.

"All the bodies of the dead have been located," Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who heads a commission on the disaster.

A highly-placed police source earlier told RIA Novosti that Kaczynski"s body may have already been found, but that "additional tests, including DNA," would be needed to identify many of the bodies.

The Polish president was on his way to pay tribute to the some 20,000 Polish officers who were executed by Soviet secret police in Katyn forest and other locations in 1940. The officers had been taken prisoner by Soviet forces when the USSR invaded Poland during the early days of World War Two.

Cause

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 


Add your comment:
Name:
Site address: http://
Your message:
Enter today\\\\'s date, 2 digits
(spam protection):
Popular Articles

The Russian Public Chamber on Tuesday asked...

The Russian Public Chamber on Tuesday asked Moscow city authorities to abandon plans to decorate the city with Joseph Stalin billboards for the 65th Victory Day celebrations.


Gazprom intends to increase natural gas...

Gazprom intends to increase natural gas supplies to Europe to 160.8 billion cubic meters in 2010 from about 140 billion cu m last year as the global economy shows signs of recovery, the energy giant said on Tuesday.


Russian Jews will establish a youth organization...

Russian Jews will establish a youth organization based in the Volga city of Ulyanovsk that could become the largest such group in the country, a Russian Jewish Congress spokesman said on Wednesday.

Не могу записать в system. Назначьте права 777 на эту папку.