The Yaroslavl Lokomotiv hockey team, ranked No. 3 in the Russian KHL hockey league last year, lost all but one member.

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World ice hockey chief Rene Fasel said the crash in Yaroslavl was "the darkest day in the history of our sport".

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Equally important, say Russian analysts, was the involvement of journalists and Moscow-based election observers who ensured a genuinely fair poll in Yaroslavl.

ECONOMIST: Russia

Nearly the entire KHL Yaroslavl Lokomtiv hockey team perished in the late afternoon flight on Wednesday roughly 155 miles from Moscow, Russian press is reporting.

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Valentina Tereshkova (Russian Federation), Deputy at the Yaroslavl Duma and the first female cosmonaut, is also expected to contribute to the round tables with a video message.

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After contacting his relatives in Yaroslavl, the reporter alerted the authorities, and this week Vladimir Yepishin found himself on a plane for the first time in his life, flying to Moscow.

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