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08.09.2010, 13:45
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A Tu-154 aircraft with failed flight control, navigation and radio communication systems has landed in taiga cutting a 200-meter-long swath through the forest, with no casualties and minimum damage to the plane.
24.04.2010, 23:15
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Tours to prisons are to teach Belarusian officials not to take bribes.
22.05.2009, 19:36
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A controversy over footage of a traffic accident shot with a mobile phone camera is brewing on Russian blogs. The author preferred taking pictures of people burning alive to using the phone to call for help.
08.05.2009, 11:46
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Residents of a village in Siberia say a fragment of rocket hit their house on Thursday night, but the Russian space agency is sceptical about the report.
15.05.2009, 02:57
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In April, a deadly aircraft incident involving about 300 passengers was prevented seconds before a collision could take place, Russia's Federal Air Navigation Service (Rosavianavigatsia) revealed on Wednesday.
23.05.2009, 19:29
Russian rescuers have saved the life of a pilot whose light aircraft got trapped in a 220 kV power line – it was a miraculous escape as his plane could either have fallen or simply burned to ashes.
22.10.2009, 21:54
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A man barely escaped death when an out-of-control bus rampaged through the streets of Perm, Central Russia, crashing into cars. It seems 23-year-old medical student Vitaly was saved by the power of love!
01.03.2010, 15:16
A resident of Russia’s Far East had to spend months in court to prove he was alive after a local registry office mistakenly filed the man as “dead”.
16.06.2010, 16:35
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Three people have died in Ukraine after trying to rid their home of a rat infestation. Unwilling to spend money on an exterminator, they used exhaust from their car.
27.10.2009, 15:28
The general director of Russian airline S-Air was reportedly among five people killed when a business jet flying from Moscow to Belarus crashed on Monday night.
Published: 08 July, 2009, 17:07
What does it mean to be born lucky? A man from a small town in Belarus can take it to mean falling asleep on railway lines, having a train pass over your head and staying safe and sound throughout!
