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Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, is on a plane headed back to Moscow. Navalny's flight on budget airline Pobeda took off from Berlin's BER airport at 1417 GMT. Navalny risks being arrested on arrival, but told reporters on board that he was "an innocent person". IMAGES
Scenes of a passenger plane engulfed in flames as it sits on the tarmac in Moscow's busiest airport. At least one person has died and several more are injured after a passenger plane caught fire after making an emergency landing in Moscow, Russian media reports. IMAGES
Seventy one people, including three foreign nationals and six crew members, were killed when Saratov Airlines flight 6W703 crashed shortly after take-off. The plane was flying to the city of Orsk when it vanished from radar screens shortly after it took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, before crashing some 50 miles south-east of the capital. According to the Russian Transport Ministry a special committee is investigating the cause of the deadly crash.
Emergency services work after a Russian jet conducting a test flight crashed into a two-storey house in the city of Irkutsk in southern Siberia, days after a military jet crashed into a block of flats in the Russian town of Yeysk. IMAGES
The coffin carrying the veteran firebrand Russian ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky leaves the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The politician -- who was reported to have been in grave condition after being hospitalised in early February with Covid -- died after a "serious and prolonged illness", the head of the lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Wednesday. IMAGES
Prague, May 29 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Martin Divisek) An Ilyushin Il-96 aircraft of the Russian government departed on Saturday from the Prague Václav Havel International Airport after the Czech government decided to reduce the number of workers of the Russian embassy in Prague.FOOTAGE OF THE PLANE AND OF THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN PRAGUE