| May 2006 |
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Russia's transportation minister has ordered that emergency headquarters be set up to organize technical assistance in an international effort to retrieve the flight recorders of an Armenian plane that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, the transportation ministry said Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with WWII veterans Monday on the eve of Victory Day, the anniversary of Nazi forces' surrender to the Soviet Union in Berlin in 1945, marking the end of the Great Patriotic War which claimed the lives of over 20 million Soviet citizens.
French specialists will arrive in Sochi on Tuesday bringing equipment needed to search for the flight recorders of an Armenian Airbus A-320 airliner that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, a Russian official said Monday.
"Global developments require [Russia] to maintain high levels of technical backup to ensure the combat readiness of its Armed Forces,'" Army General Yury Baluyevsky said. 
The foreign ministers of the six negotiating nations on Iran's nuclear program will meet Monday in New York to discuss means of resolving the situation.
Russia may continue to provide financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority, the Foreign Ministry's special envoy to the Middle East said Monday.
Rescuers expect to receive Monday images of objects believed to be the flight recorders of an Armenian Airbus A-320 airliner that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, killing all 113 people on board.
An earthquake of Richter magnitude 4.3 rocked early Monday Avachinsk Bay off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, seismologists said. 



