State Duma deputy Vadim Soloviev prepared an appeal to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to include Charlie Hebdo magazine employees in the sanctions lists, which published two cartoons on the crash of the Russian A321 passenger plane in Egypt. According to Solovyov, “this ...
Responsibility for the crash of the A-321 plane in Egypt may be borne by Abu Osama al-Masri, the leader of the Islamic State unit in the Sinai Peninsula. According to The Sunday Times, British intelligence suggests that it was this group that planted the bomb on board the plane. There is no official confirmation of the information from The Sunday Times. Moreover,…
Participants in the investigation into the death of a Russian plane over Sinai are 90 percent sure that the extraneous noise recorded on board the plane was the sound of a bomb explosion. An Egyptian expert told Reuters in Cairo, who asked not to be named. He will discuss the details ...
The Russian government is considering a "British scheme" for the evacuation of Russian citizens from Egypt. A source close to the Cabinet of Ministers told RBC about this. According to this scheme, tourists are first evacuated and only then luggage is transported. “Yes, they are going to export them according to the British scheme. Rosaviatsia broadcasts this to airlines, ”RBC confirmed ...
US authorities have decided to strengthen security measures for incoming flights as a precaution after the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt. On October 31, when a Kogalymavia plane crashed on the Sinai Peninsula, all 224 passengers flying from the resort…
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the publication of cartoons by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the crash of the A321 plane of the Russian company Kogalymavia in Egypt “blasphemy.” Employees of Charlie Hebdo, whose editorial office was attacked by extremists on January 14, published a cartoon depicting the wreckage of a plane and...
In the afternoon, the FSB proposed such a measure until the cause of the A321 crash is established. Almost immediately, Vladimir Putin agreed with the FSB. “The head of state agreed with these recommendations. V. Putin instructed the government to work out mechanisms for implementing these recommendations of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee and ensuring the return...
The flight recorder of the crashed A321 aircraft recorded the sound of the explosion on board. This is reported by the French TV channel France-2 with reference to one of the participants in the investigation of the disaster. According to him, it is not about the explosion of the plane's engine. Le Point newspaper reports, citing the results of the decryption of the "black boxes", that after the explosion on board the plane it was disconnected ...
US President Barack Obama admitted the possibility that a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt last week was destroyed in an explosion. All 224 people on board were killed in the crash. “We will spend a lot of time to ensure that our own investigators ...
Five days after the plane crash of the Russian airline Metrojet in Egypt, it is still unclear what caused the deaths of 224 people flying from Sharm El Sheikh to St. Petersburg. The United States and Britain are talking about the likelihood of a terrorist attack, and Russian officials are asking to refrain from speculation, not excluding any of the possible causes of the plane crash. Foreign version: perhaps ...