Moscow-New York flight delayed for 15 hours

NEW YORK, December 27 (Itar-Tass) -- An Aeroflot Moscow-New York
flight is delayed for 15 hours at the Sheremetyevo airport. The Airbus
A-330 with 294 passengers was to take off at 2.35 p.m. Moscow time on
Sunday, but according to the latest reports, the flight is scheduled for
5.30 a.m. Moscow time on Monday.
People had to stay at the airport all this time, a passenger told
Itar-Tass. "The Aeroflot Airlines gave all the aid to the passengers," he
said. They were offered cheques for each meal of 490 roubles per person
and free cool and warm-up beverages several times.
The flight is delayed due to a slippery runway and an ice-laden
airliner body. The bad visibility and extremely foil weather conditions
also the departure complicate at the JFK International Airport in New York.

.Power utility workers go to help Moscow region from close regions.

MOSCOW, December 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Some 40 teams of power utility
workers will be restoring the electric power supplies in the Moscow Region
all Monday night long, whereas 251 teams of repairmen had been working
there since Sunday morning, spokesman for the Moscow United Power Grid
Company Vitaly Strugovets told Itar-Tass on Monday.
"Our colleagues from other branches of the Moscow United Power Grid
Company in the Bryansk, Tambov, Kursk, Voronezh and Kaluga regions will
arrive to help us," he underlined.