Russia's Prime Minister acknowledges that a bomb may have brought down the flight in Egypt

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has publicly acknowledged that the plane crash in Egypt on October 31 might have been the result of a bomb. "The likelihood of a terrorist attack, of course, is being considered among what reasons could have caused this," Medvedev said in an interview with the newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta, adding that the investigation is ongoing.

• On Saturday morning, October 31, an Airbus A321 Russian passenger flight operated by Metrojet crashed in the mountainous area of central Sinai, en route to St. Petersburg. All 224 people on board died.
• On November 6, acting on recommendations by Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee, Vladimir Putin suspended all Russian flights to Egypt. Despite this move, the Kremlin has been reluctant to blame terrorists for the crash, while foreign leaders and journalists say they are increasingly confident that a bomb is what brought down the plane.