Russia mourns death of jet crash victims
Russia mourns the deaths of 43 people including top ice hockey players in a plane crash as President Dmitry Medvedev planned to visit the site of the disaster, international media outlets reported.
An aging Yak-42 plane carrying three-times Russian champion ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl including several former and current NHL stars crashed on Wednesday near Yaroslavl, 300 kilometres (185 miles) northeast of Moscow.
The crash occurred on the eve of a scheduled visit by Medvedev to the city to address a political conference, but now the Russian leader is also planning to tour the site of the country's latest transportation catastrophe.