Russian plane with 92 aboard crashes into the Black Sea

**Lamplighter** Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:50 am

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian plane headed to an air base in Syria with 92 people aboard, including members of the world-famous Russian army choir, crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday minutes after taking off from the city of Sochi, Russia's Defense Ministry said. There appeared to be no survivors.

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**bb1** Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:55 am

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Among the 84 passengers on the plane were members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the army's official musical group internationally known as the Red Army Choir

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An absolute tragedy, just one more horrible thing in this horrible year.

**lily** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:02 pm

It is, Bonny. Crying or Very sad

**bb1** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:24 pm

https://youtu.be/kFapYxJCey4

I loved the Red Army Choir, even in the dark days of the Cold War, they were a symbol of shared humanity. Crying or Very sad

**lily** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:27 pm

This is a sad day for them...... Crying or Very sad

**bb1** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:28 pm

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Renowned Russian humanitarian and charity activist Elizaveta Glinka, widely known as Dr. Liza, is feared dead after boarding the plane bound for Syria that crashed Sunday morning off the Sochi coast.
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The 54-year-old head of the 'Fair Help' fund was supposed to travel to Latakia to deliver medical supplies to a hospital, according to the Human Rights Council.

Her fund also said that Glinka was “taking humanitarian supplies for the Tishreen university hospital in Latakia,” while the Defense Ministry confirmed the passenger list included her name.

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There was some confusion regarding Glinka’s fate after the plane stopped over in Sochi for refueling. Several news outlets reported that she failed to board the flight after a security check.

As time passed, however, her mobile phone remained hopelessly switched off.

Eventually, Elena Pogrebizhskaya, author of a documentary film on Doctor Liza, wrote on her Facebook page: “Liza’s phone is out of coverage. She has not been in touch with anyone for 11 hours. This includes her family. Gleb [Glinka’s husband] says he wants to be alone... This is a nightmare.”

This was an additional shock to Russians on top of the death of the 64 members of the Alexandrov army choir.

“We were hoping for a miracle until the very last moment. And she was a miracle herself, a heaven-sent message of virtue,” head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov told Interfax.

“Dr. Lisa was the darling of all hearts for one simple reason. For many years, almost every day, she provided palliative medical care, feeding the homeless, giving them shelter and clothes. She took the sick and injured children from Donbass under a hail of bullets, so that they could get help in the best hospitals in Moscow and St Petersburg. She organized a shelter for children with amputated limbs, where they can undergo rehabilitation after treatment in hospital.

“To save the lives of others – this was her mission everywhere: in Russia, Donbass, Syria...” Fedotov added.

Born into a military family, which also includes a famous dietitian, Glinka graduated from the Russian National Research Medical Institute in Moscow to become a pediatric anesthesiologist. In 1986, she and her husband emigrated to the US, where she studied palliative care and graduated from Dartmouth. In America, she became involved with the work of hospices. Glinka later participated in the work of the First Moscow Hospice, after which the family moved to Ukraine for two years. In 1999, she founded the first hospice in Kiev.

In 2007, Glinka founded the ‘Fair Help’ fund in Moscow, which provides financial support and medical care to cancer patients, underprivileged families, the homeless, and others in need.

**lily** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:37 pm

**Lamplighter** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:42 pm

I am very wary of Russia but I love the tune to the Russian anthem. LL

**bb1** Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:54 pm

Remember, the Russian people didn't choose to be Communist; it was inflicted on them. If Lenin and his crummy crew hadn't been smuggled into Russia by Germany; if Britain had taken in the Tsar and his family..how different could things have been.

I would like to see President Putin go to Washington, and President Trump go to Moscow for Victory Day, and the two great Christian nations work together in harmony and peace.

**lily** Mon Dec 26, 2016 4:15 pm

That would be so amazing and I hope to see that too.

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