Khurgada-bound Boeing had 212 people onboard - Rosaviatsiya

MOSCOW, January 2 (Itar-Tass) -- The Boeing-767, which made an
emergency landing in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don late on
Saturday, had 212 people, including 200 passengers and 12 crew members,
onboard, a source in the Russian air navigation agency (Rosaviatsiya) told
Itar-Tass.
The jet was performing a flight from Moscow to the Egyptian beach city
of Hurghada. "While in the air, the crew received a report from a gauge
measuring oil in the engines that pressure had started falling and the
pilots decided to make a forced landing," the source said.
All the passengers and crew feel safe and sound after the landing.

.Russia's Public Chamber to focus on interethnic relations in 2011.

MOSCOW, January 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Public Chamber has pledged
to pay special attention to interethnic relations in 2011.
"In 2011, we will pay special attention to problems of interethnic
relations and to the involvement of the youth in such conflicts," the
Chamber's deputy secretary Mikhail Ostovsky told Itar-Tass.
"The recent disorders on Moscow's Manezh Square have laid bare many
problems of our society, which must be solved both through legal
initiatives and through close work with citizens," he said.
According to Ostrovsky, developments in the settlement of
Kushchevskaya, outbreaks of street violence in Moscow, St. Petersburg and
other cities involving young people "demonstrate problems of spreading the
psychology of violence in society." That is why, this year "it is
necessary to take every effort to create a special federal agency in the
country that would deal with ethnic problems," he noted.
"In the new year, members of the Public Chamber will do their best to
have a law on regional chambers and public councils under municipalities
be passed," said Josef Diskin, the chairman of the Public Chamber's
commission on civic society. "We must build a system of public control
over authorities at all levels," he stressed.