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Dmitry Medvedev was briefed on the crash of Tu-154 airplane near Smolensk

April 10, 2010
12:05

President Medvedev ordered the establishment of a government commission headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Putin Vladimir Putin VladimirPresident of the Russian Federation to investigate all the circumstances of the disaster.

At the President’s instruction Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu Shoigu Sergei Shoigu SergeiDefence Minister , Transport Minister Igor Levitin, and First Deputy Prosecutor General and Chairman of the Prosecutor General’s Office Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin flew immediately to the crash site.

The Tu-154 airplane flying from Warsaw to Smolensk crashed on its landing approach some 300 to 400 metres off the runway of Smolensk-North military aerodrome. Russian law enforcement agencies have reported that no passengers survived.

Polish authorities confirmed that aboard the plane were President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his spouse Maria Kaczynska, as well as Polish senior officials, politicians and public figures.

President Lech Kaczynski was to make a private visit to the Katyn cemetery near Smolensk, the site of Russia’s first international memorial complex to the victims of totalitarian repression.

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Publication date: April 10, 2010, 12:05

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/7413

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