“I am almost 100 per cent sure that they forgot to pour ‘Arctic,’ a kind of anti-freeze, into the engines,” Agamed Shamalov, the pilot, told Lifenews.ru. “That is why one after the other, things went wrong.” He maintained that the two deaths were caused despite the efforts of the crew. “Let them say what they want,” declared Shamalov. “We’re not dead, that is the main thing. It will not be so easy to blame us.” Other theories Investigators, meanwhile, are exploring three possible explanations. Pilot error – most commonly cited after plane crashes – is one of them. But there are also concerns that the plane might have set off with a pre-existing problem, while the possibility of technical failure in mid-flight has not been ruled out. Hi-fliers The flight was operated by South East Airlines, formerly known as Dagestan Airlines and still known as such on its website. Among the passengers were Dagestani president Magomedslam Magomedov’s brother Gadzhimurad, 49, and Roza Gadzhiyeva, 80, mother of Constitutional Court judge Gadis Gadzhiyev, who both died. Azadi Ragimov, Dagestani justice minister, was among the 82 injured. The flight was carrying 167 people when it took off from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. 15 minutes into the journey engine failure meant it had to perform an emergency landing in poor visibility at Domodedovo airport. The Tu-154 plane was the same model that crashed in April killing Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 90 others, raising concerns over Russia's ageing aviation infrastructure, Reuters reported. Probe into the crash landing of a Tu-154 airplane in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport will be resumed 06.12.2010, 02.24 MOSCOW, December 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The probe into the crash landing of a Tu-154 airplane in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport will be resumed on the accident scene on Monday.
“Crude is almost at $90 which is helping Russia,” , a sales trader at Citigroup Inc., said by telephone in Moscow. To contact the reporter on this story: at To contact the editor responsible for this story: Gavin Serkin at Last Updated: December 6, 2010 03:46 EST DECEMBER 6, 2010, 3:42 A.M. ET Yuan-Ruble Preliminary Trade To Start On Micex Exchange Dec 15 MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Preliminary trade for the yuan-ruble currency pair will begin on Russia's Micex exchange Dec. 15, the Micex Group said in a presentation Monday. The yuan-ruble trade, which will run for an hour each weekday starting at 10 a.m. Moscow time, will be settled among Russian banks and the Russian units of Chinese banks, Micex officials have said. Traders will have to pay for any currency purchases immediately in a regime known as T+0. The limited initial interest in ruble-yuan trading is expected to come from Russian banks with a strong presence in Siberia or the Russian Far East. Trading in the yuan-ruble pair will be driven by market forces, central bank Deputy Chairman Valery Melnikov said. The exchange rate of the ruble itself is managed by the central bank against a dollar-euro trading basket. Already this autumn, China launched its own official trade of the ruble-yuan pair. -By Ira Iosebashvili and William Mauldin, Dow Jones Newswires; +7 495 232-9192, ira.iosebashvili@dowjones.com or william.mauldin@dowjones.com Freight One valued at $3.9bn Aton December 6, 2010 According to Kommersant (6 Dec) 75% of Freight One (FO), slated for an IPO, has been preliminarily valued at RUB91.1bn ($2.9bn) in Russian Railways' (RZD) financial plan for 2011.