Govt. to assign 100,000 to family of every Russian air crash victim
By Galina Solodovnikova
ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 7, 2006 Sunday 10:07 AM EST
The government plans to assign 100,000 rubles to the family of every
Russian citizen killed in the Sochi air crash, Transport Minister
and investigation commission head Igor Levitin told a Sunday press
conference.
In addition, the families will receive 20,000 rubles from the Armavia
Armenian airline, he said.
“Sochi authorities have decided to pay 500,000 rubles to each local
family of the air crash victims and to bear the funeral expenses,”
he said.
“The governmental investigation commission will now move to Moscow
and visit the crash scene whenever necessary,” Levitin said.