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March 6. An-26 disaster in Syria and the poisoning of the former GRU colonel

In Syria, the Russian An-26 crashed , on board of which there were 39 people. All of them died. According to the Ministry of Defense, the transport aircraft landed on the basis of Khmeimim and fell, not reaching the runway about 500 meters. The main version of the crash is the technical malfunction - the military excludes that the aircraft could be shot down. All the dead were military personnel.

Poisoning of a former GRU officer

On the evening of March 4, the former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious on a bench in the English city of Salisbury. They were poisoned with an unknown potent substance - according to one version, it was a fentanin, an opioid painkillers. Emergency employees who worked at the scene were also hospitalized; They complained about eye irritation and shortness of breath (with a version about fentanin, such symptoms are not consistent).

Skripal was recruited by British intelligence in 1995 . In 2004, he was arrested, two years later sentenced to 13 years in the colony, and in 2010 they released west, exchanging “sleeping agents” exposed in the United States. Since then, he lived in the UK.

The story of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died with Sergey Skripal, who died in London in 2006 from Polonium poisoning. State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi, who in the UK is called involved in the death of Litvinenko, said that "the British suffer from phobias." “There were agreements between the special services. Pursuit the already pardoned is absurd, ”added Lugovoi.

Other news

Farid Rustamova, a journalist of the Russian BBC Service, said that deputy Leonid Slutsky morale her in 2017. This happened in his office, where she came for a comment; Their conversation is recorded on the recorder. Slutsky called the journalist a “rabble”, complained that she “did not want to kiss”, and then ran a hand over her pubis. Rustamova was one of the journalists who previously anonymously spoke about the harassment of the Slutsk television channel Rain.

The decryption of negotiations of the An-148 pilots, which broke in February in the suburbs, was published . Data from the recorders previously showed that after take -off, the devices incorrectly showed the speed of the aircraft and the crew tried to rectify the situation in manual mode.

North Korea promised not to bomb South Korea and expressed his readiness to introduce a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests. In April, the heads of both states are expected to meet at the official inter -Korean summit - the first during the reign of Kim Jong -un in the DPRK.

Alexei Navalnydiscovered that in the suburbs they built a residential complex without windows on one side. From these windows, the estate of Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov would be seen.

How pilots are taught in Russia

The problems of education in Russian civil aviation are not only scandals like filming by half -naked cadets of a viral video , but also the state monopoly on the preparation of pilots, outdated programs and lack of practice. For how pilots in Russia are arranged , for us was written by journalist Katerina Kuznetsova:

Due to the lack of technology, future pilots undergo flight practice with huge delays. According to the [former cadet] Anton Yakovlev, at the Ulyanovsk Institute, some began to fly only in the fourth year: “I was indignant, went to the leadership, said that we were promised in the second year. They answered me: “You are not supposed to know this by status. Go from here!” For four to five hours he stood on the reception day at the director’s office, there was no sense in this. ” As a result, Yakovlev, without having passed the flight practice, left the institute. [Pilot] Alexander Lebedev was waiting for his turn for flights for a year. All this time, he, already actually graduating from college and even defending his diploma, was sitting at home idle.

Victor Davydov