Tu-134 passenger plane crashes in Kyrgyzstan
28 December 2011 - 1:24pm
A plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan’s city of Osh with 73 passengers on board. The plane belonged to the Kyrgyzstan Air Company. It went off the runway while landing and turned over on one of its sides, a fire started. The Tu-134 was flying on the Bishkek-Osh route, RBC reports.
There were no victims, two people were injured. The fire was put out.
A commission was formed to investigate the incident. Weather conditions may have caused the accident.
Read also
May 22 2013 - 18:18
An acquaintance of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnayev has been shot dead by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida, world media report.
May 22 2013 - 07:08
Trial of Jokhar Tsarnayev, suspected organizer of the Boston Marathon blast, will start no sooner than on July 2. Judge Marianne Bowler postponed the trial until July, according to a request of Tsarnayev’s lawyer.Hearings were initially planned for May 30.Two blasts happened at the finish line of the marathon with an interval of 12 seconds. Three people died and over 260 were injured. Tamerlan and Jokhar Tsarnayev’s (aged 26 and 19) were charged with organizing the blast.
May 21 2013 - 10:21
A tornado killed 90 people, including 40 children, in State Oklahoma, RIA Novosti reports.The hurricane destroyed dozens of buildings, two schools. President Barack Obama ordered the funds from the federal budgets to help people recover Local authorities and volunteers will receive support to restore buildings.
May 20 2013 - 15:43
Kazakhstan has completed the first stage of the operation "Illegal Alien", which has resulted in the deportation of nearly 700 foreigners, the press release of the Interior Ministry says."15,465 foreigners and stateless persons were fined for the violation of the rules of stay in Kazakhstan, including 449 foreigners, and 15,016 citizens of the CIS.
May 20 2013 - 11:49
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbulogly told Vestnik Kavkaza that Azerbaijan had given Russia 10 points at the Eurovision Song Contest, but the votes had disappeared for unknown reasons. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered the incident to be investigated.
May 20 2013 - 09:21
Kazakh Vice Minister for Education and Science Sayat Shayakhmetov has been arrested for stealing $10 million, RIA Novosti reports.A criminal case on his illegal acquisition of state finances was initiated on April 29. The funds were granted for construction of a school for 700 pupils in Ust-Kamenogorsk.Shayakhmetov and Pak, Director General of the Directorate of Constructed Education and Science Structures of Kazakhstan, were detained on May 14, 2013. Shayakhmetov was put under home arrest on May 17.
May 17 2013 - 10:50
Tamerlan Tsarnayev, suspected organizer of the Boston Marathon blast, was in touch with Musa Hajimuradov, a bodyguard of Ahmed Zakayev, Interfax reports.Hajimuradov’s house in Manchester (New Hampshire) was checked by the FBI. He was summoned for DNA samples and fingerprints that prove the theory.Hajimuradov said that he had met Tsarnayev in 2006 and had been in contact with the man ever since. Their last meeting happened a few weeks before terrorist attacks.
May 16 2013 - 17:15
The alleged organizer of the bombings in Boston, Dzokhar Tsarnaev, left a note before his arrest, which confirmed that he was involved in the terrorist attack, the American channel CBS said today.He wrote that the bombings were retribution against the US for actions against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.The CBS also reports that Tsarnaev's note called the Boston bombing victims "collateral damage," and referred to his deceased brother Tamerlan as a martyr.In particular, the note said the attacks were carried out in response to what the U.S.
