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First aircraft with Russian citizens who lived in Syria landed in Moscow

Moscow, Russia - "There are no plans to launch a large-scale evacuation", the Minister for Foreign Affairs claims

The aircraft which had on board the first 77 Russian citizens who lived in Syria and decided to leave the Middle-Eastern country, which is devastated by a civil war which has caused some 60,000 victims so far according to a very cautious estimate, landed in the morning of Wednesday 23 January 2013 at Moscow-Domodedovo Airport, with two flights operated with a Yak-42 and an Ilyushin Il-76 departed from...

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Rome, Italy, 01/23/2013 13:44
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