- 22:01 22/08/2006
Preliminary reports suggest that a lightning strike caused the crash of a Russian airliner on Tuesday, in which all 171 people onboard died, Russian emergency services said. 
- 21:02 22/08/2006
- 20:26 22/08/2006
A Russian emergencies official said Tuesday Dutch nationals were onboard the Tu-154 plane that crashed in stormy weather in Ukraine while flying from Russia's resort city on the Black Sea to St Petersburg earlier in the day.
- 20:18 22/08/2006
- 19:51 22/08/2006
All 171 passengers and crew on a Russian airliner were killed Tuesday afternoon when the plane crashed in stormy weather in eastern Ukraine.
- 19:10 22/08/2006
Three suspects detained over a bomb attack on a Moscow that killed 10 and injured 49 have confessed, prosecutor Yury Syomin said Tuesday.
- 18:45 22/08/2006
No one is believed to have survived the crash of a Russian airliner in Ukraine, emergency services in the country said Tuesday. A total of 171 passengers and crew, including 39 children, were believed to have been on board the Tu-154, which was flying from the Russian resort of Anapa on the Black Sea to St. Petersburg, Russia's second city. Its flight path took it over Ukraine, where it came down 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of the city of Donetsk in stormy weather.
- 18:40 22/08/2006
- 18:21 22/08/2006
A thunderstorm rather than terrorism is thought to have caused a Russian airliner with 171 people on board to crash over Ukraine Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Russian emergencies services said. "A terrorist attack is ruled out," Irina Andriyanova said. "Ukrainian sources said the plane was caught in a thunderstorm." The St. Petersburg-based Pulkovo Airline said the passengers of the Tu-154 jet, the mainstay of the Russian air fleet, included 39 children under the age of 12 and six children under the age of two.
- 18:10 22/08/2006
Charges have been brought against three suspects in Monday's Moscow market bombing that killed 10 and left 49 injured, prosecutor Yury Syomin said Tuesday. The suspects were detained on the day of the bombing.
- 18:00 22/08/2006
- 17:50 22/08/2006
Thirty bodies have been found at the site of a Russian airliner crash in eastern Ukraine, emergencies services said Tuesday. A total of 154 adults, 11 crew and six children were onboard the three-engine Tu-154 airliner that crashed outside Donetsk close to the Russian border Tuesday afternoon, Russia's air traffic controller service said. The Tu-154, which is the mainstay of the Russian aircraft fleet, was en route from the resort of Anapa on the Black Sea in southern Russia to St. Petersburg, Russia's second biggest city.
- 17:26 22/08/2006
Thirty bodies have been found at the site of a Russian airliner crash in eastern Ukraine, emergencies services said Tuesday. A total of 154 adults, 11 crew and six children were onboard the three-engine Tu-154 airliner that crashed outside Donetsk close to the Russian border Tuesday afternoon, the Russian emergencies services said. The plane was en route from the resort of Anapa on the Black Sea in southern Russia to St. Petersburg, Russia's second biggest city.
- 17:20 22/08/2006
Russia's government will use economic measures to hold back the ruble's further rise, and intends to keep the national currency's appreciation within 4.7% of its average effective rate this year, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Tuesday.
- 17:14 22/08/2006
- 17:04 22/08/2006
Russian Tu-154 airliner with 160 passengers and ten crew onboard crashed over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, emergency services said Tuesday. Russian television's Channel One reported that 30 bodies had been found at the site of the crash. "On Tuesday, at 15.39 [local time - 12:39 GMT], a Tu-154 airliner of the [St. Petersburg-based] Pulkovo Airlines ... sent a SOS signal and disappeared from radars," the source said. "Preliminary data suggests that the plane crashed 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of Donetsk."
- 17:01 22/08/2006
A Russian Tu-154 airliner with 160 passengers and ten crew onboard crashed over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, emergency services said Tuesday. The plane was en route from the resort of Anapa on the Black Sea in southern Russia to St. Petersburg. "On Tuesday, at 15.39 [local time - 12:39 GMT], a Tu-154 airliner of the [St. Petersburg-based] Pulkovo Airlines ... sent a SOS signal and disappeared from radars," the source said. "Preliminary data suggests that the plane crashed 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of Donetsk."
- 16:57 22/08/2006
A senior member of Russia's lower chamber of parliament condemned Tuesday the seizure of a Russian tanker off the west coast of Africa. Earlier in the day the Primorye Shipping Company said armed men seized a Russian tanker with 19 Russians on board near Guinea.
- 16:34 22/08/2006
