Refrigerator vessel cast ashore in Russia's Far East.

VLADIVOSTOK, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- The Labrador refrigerator vessel
was cast ashore the Iturup island by a strong cyclone, which gripped
Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Far East, marine rescuers told
Itar-Tass on Monday.

The 15 crew members of the vessel, whose home port is Nakhodka, were
saved by a frontier tug-boat.
The 78-meter vessel of the 2,000 tons deadweight capacity loaded with
fish was sailing off the island of Iturup when its master engine failed,
and it was cast ashore by a strong wind of 30 meters per second. The
vessel had 17 tons of fuel, no spill was reported.

.Russian culture minister to meet with Syrian prime minister.

BEIRUT, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Visiting Russian Minister of Culture
Alexander Avdeyev on Monday will meet with Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad
Naji al-Otari to discuss prospects for bilateral relations.
The Russian minister will also meet with Patriarch of Antioch and All
the East Ignatius IV and Grand Mufti Ahmed Badreddin Hassun, and will
visit the Hazed al-Assad State Library, which was set up twenty five years
ago with the assistance of Soviet specialists.
On Sunday, Avdeyev and his Syrian counterpart Riyadh Na'san Agha
signed a program of cultural cooperation between the two ministries for
2010-2012. The program provides for Days of Russian Culture in Syria in
2011 and Days of Syrian Culture in Russia in 2012.

.Tu-204 aircraft makes emergency landing near Moscow's Domodedovo.

MOSCOW, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- A Tu-204 aircraft has made an
emergency landing one kilometre off the Domodedovo airport outside Moscow,
police told Itar-Tass early on Monday.
The aircraft was heading from the Egyptian resort of Khurgada with
only eight crew members onboard.
Due to unknown reasons the aircraft did not make it to the airport's
runway and landed in the field.
According to preliminary reports, two persons were injured. No visible
damages to ground structures or fire were reported.

.Airport spokeswoman says nine crew onboard crashed aircraft.

MOSCOW, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- A total of nine crew members were
onboard the Tu-204 aircraft that made an emergency landing near the
Domodedovo airports outside Moscow early on Monday, an airport's
spokeswoman told Itar-Tass.
According to Elena Galanova, all the crew members are alive, two were
hospitalised in a grave condition.
The aircraft is 300 metres off the airport's fence and some one
kilometre off its runway. An ad-hoc commission is working on the scene,
she said, adding that the airport operates in a regular regime.
Meanwhile, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said eight crew
members had been onboard the Tu-204 of the Aviastar airlines, two of them
were injured.
According to the agency, the aircraft's mark disappeared from the
radar screen approximately one kilometre off the runway. "The aircraft was
found destroyed," the agency said, confirming that the accident did not
affect the airport's work.

.Seven injured in Tu-204 emergency landing outside Moscow.

MOSCOW, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Seven persons have been injured in the
emergency landing of the Tu-204 aircraft near the Domodedovo airport
outside Moscow early on Monday, a spokeswoman for the regional emergencies
administration told Itar-Tass.
"Seven persons were taken to the Domodedovo regional hospital, two of
them in a grave condition," Elena Smirnykh said.
The accident was reported at 03:45 a.m. Moscow time. While approaching
to landing, the Tu-204 en route from Egypt's Khurgada to Moscow made an
emergency landing in a woodland belt area, she said, adding that no damage
was reported to land structures.
Meanwhile, police said the aircraft was not seriously damaged. It made
an emergency landing one kilometre off the runway.
The flight records are currently being searched for to establish the
cause of the accident.
An ad-hoc commission is working on the scene.
The aircraft belongs to the Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar-TU airlines, an
airport's spokesperson said.
According to the spokesperson, the aircraft of this type had an
accident on Sunday morning. "After the aircraft bound from Moscow to
Khurgada took off at 04:05 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday, the pilot took a
decision to return to the airport because of smoke in the cabin. Twelve
hours later the aircraft finally took off for Khurgada.
It was not immediately clear whether it was the same aircraft, which
made an emergency landing on Monday. "In any case, the aircraft type and
the airlines co-inside," the spokesperson said.
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