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Due to smoke in the cabin, an aircraft with 282 people on board made an emergency landing in Siberia, in the east of Russia.

At the presidential elections in Russia the polling stations report a higher attendance than six years ago. The polling stations opened Sunday at 8.00 am local time in the densely populated western part of the country.

In the case of a serious bus crash in Siberia, Russia eleven people died Monday. Forty people were injured, according to the Russian authorities.

Drinking gallons of bath oil is 25 Russians become fatal in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. Poor residents hope that drinking the stuff has the same effects as alcohol.

The crash of the Russian cargo plane Friday where at least eight people were killed, did not come by a technical fault.

At least six people have been killed by the crash of a Russian cargo plane in Siberia. The device disappeared Friday from radar during a firefighting mission.