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Dc5m United States Music in English Created at 2016-12-25 18:03 Announcement DC5m United States music in english 5 articles, created at 2016-12-25 18:03 articles set mostly neutral rate 0.0 1 3.4 Russian plane crashes en route to Syria; all 92 presumed dead (10.99/11) A Russian plane en route to Syria crashed in the Black Sea near Sochi, with all 92 passengers presumed dead, including the country's official choir. 2016-12-25 09:41 3KB www.upi.com 2 0.0 Tragedy-hit Red Army Choir a fabled symbol of USSR and Russia The acclaimed Red Army Choir, which lost 64 members in a plane crash Sunday, has (1.00/11) been a potent symbol for projecting Moscow's military and artistic prowess to millions across the globe. 2016-12-25 09:30 4KB www.digitaljournal.com 3 2.7 16 Photos Of Presidents, First Families And Santa Through the years, first families have done plenty with Santa — from singing and dancing (Obama) to reading (Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton) to a celebrity kiss or two (Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush). 2016-12-25 07:00 9KB www.npr.org 4 2.6 Searching for redemption, a former gang member struggles to outrun his past In an open blue coffin draped in a sheer veil, Carl Betts was greeted by friends and family. 2016-12-25 07:00 9KB www.latimes.com 5 1.6 World's last wild frankincense forests are under threat ERIGAVO, Somalia (AP) -- In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to 2016-12-25 06:02 4KB mynorthwest.com Articles DC5m United States music in english 5 articles, created at 2016-12-25 18:03 1 /5 3.4 Russian plane crashes en route to Syria; all 92 presumed dead (10.99/11) SOCHI, Russia, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A Russian military plane en route to Syria crashed in the Black Sea near Sochi, with 92 passengers presumed dead, including the country's official choir, Russian's Defense Ministry said Sunday. The Defense Ministry said wreckage from the Tu-154 was found in the Black Sea one mile from Sochi, according to state-run RIA Novosti news agency. Parts of the plane and an oily spot were found 3.7 miles from the coast," a source told state-run news agency TASS. The Tu-154, carrying 84 passengers and a crew of eight, disappeared form radar Sunday morning after departing from Adler airport near Sochi. The plane first took off from Moscow and headed to the Russian Hmeymim airbase in Latakia, Syria, for a concert ahead of New Year's Eve. The plane first landed in Sochi for refueling, the Defense Ministry's press office said via Russia's Interfax news agency. Four ships and five helicopters were dispatched to search the crash site. No major weather patterns were present when the plane disappeared, CNN Meteorologist Derek Van Dam said. Viktor Ozerov, head of the defense affairs committee at the upper house of the Russian parliament, "totally excludes" terrorism as a possible cause of the crash. He speculated it could have crashed because of a technical malfunction or pilot error. On board were 64 members of the renowned Alexandrov Ensemble, the Russian army's official choir, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. Valery Kahlilov, the ensemble's conductor, was a passenger. Also on the plane were nine journalists, including three reporters with Star TV, and eight military members, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry. The Alexandrov Ensemble formed in 1928 and was dubbed "Russia's singing weapon" in world tours. They were to entertain troops at Russia's Hmeymim air base. "The orchestra did not fly because [the choir] was supposed to use pre-recorded music," a singer in the choir Sergei Khlopnikov, who didn't make the trip because his daughter was sick, told the Interfax news agency. A few dancers were also onboard along with Elizaveta Glinka, a prominent charity activist and humanitarian worker best known by her blogger nickname "Doctor Liza. " The plane was built in 1983 and had 6,689 hours of flight. The last repair was on Dec. 29, 2014, and it underwent scheduled maintenance last September, the Defense Ministry said. The pilot was identified as Roman Volkov with more than 3,000 hours of flying, the Defense Ministry said. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to lead an investigation of the crash, the Kremlin said. 64 members of world- Syria's Assad tells Putin he Russian plane with 92 The Latest: No sign of renowned Alexandrov army is saddened over Russian aboard crashes into the survivors at Russia plane band missing in Tu-154 plane crash Black Sea crash site crash (VIDEO) — RT News dailymail.co.uk pressherald.com article.wn.com rt.com Russia plane crash: What's Russian military plane Syrian president 'extremely Russia plane crash: What's the story behind the Tu-154? crashes into the Black Sea sad' about Russian plane the story behind the article.wn.com rssfeeds.usatoday.com crash Tupolev-154? article.wn.com rss.cnn.com 2016-12-25 09:41 www.upi.com 2 /5 0.0 Tragedy-hit Red Army Choir a fabled symbol of USSR and Russia (1.00/11) The acclaimed Red Army Choir, which lost 64 members in a plane crash Sunday, has been a potent symbol for projecting Moscow's military and artistic prowess to millions across the globe. Founded in 1928, the military Alexandrov Ensemble, more widely known as the Red Army Choir, has for decades showcased its repertoire of famed Russian folksongs and spiritual music on the global stage. The booming baritones and melodies of the all-male choir -- performing in their pristine army uniforms -- presented a human face to many beyond the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union's fearsome Red Army that swept across Europe as part of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. During the Cold War period, when the USSR and the West were locked in a nuclear standoff, the group was one of the rare Soviet ensembles to tour beyond the Eastern bloc, playing a prominent role in the Kremlin's attempts to portray itself to the rest of the world. Along with ballerinas from the world-renowned Bolshoi theatre and the orchestra of Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky theatre, for many beyond the country the military ensemble - which has some 200 members -- came to be synonomous with Soviet culture. The ensemble was directed for its first 18 years by Alexander Alexandrov, after whom the group is named, a legendary Communist-era composer who wrote the music for the stirring Soviet national anthem, which was revived as Russia's anthem by President Vladimir Putin. After Alexandrov's death the ensemble was taken over by his son Boris. The current head of the choir Valery Khalilov, who was only handed the baton earlier this year, was one of the members aboard the ill-fated military jet that crashed into the Black Sea Sunday on its way to Syria where the ensemble was due to perform a New Year's concert for Russian soldiers serving in the war-torn country. - 'Calling card for Russian culture' - In the wake of the crash, officials and cultural luminaries in the shocked nation poured praise on Khalilov and the Red Army Choir performers. Khalilov "made a huge contribution in contemporary culture above being the head of the orchestra and a composer", Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told the TASS news agency, adding that his death was an "irreplaceable loss". "It is an enormous injustice," said pianist Denis Matsuyev, calling Khalilov a "remarkable maestro". "The Alexandrov ensemble is a calling card for Russian culture," he told RIA Novosti news agency. The group's travels have often coincided with the tumultuous flux of history as the Soviet Union stamped its authority as a superpower on the globe, before later collapsing and seeing modern Russia emerge from its ashes. Concerts have taken them not only from the ruins of post-WWII Europe but also to Afghanistan during the disastrous Soviet intervention and later to Chechnya, where Moscow has fought two brutal separatist conflicts over the past 20 years. The latest trip to Syria comes as Russia under Putin has thrust itself back into the centre of the international arena by launching a bombing campaign last year to back up ally President Bashar al-Assad. Sunday's plane crash casts a grim shadow over what should have been a time of celebration for the Kremlin after the recapture of Syria's second city of Aleppo handed Assad his biggest victory in more than five years of bloody combat. Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev bemoaned the loss of the performers. "They were going to Syria on a very good mission, on a mission of peace," he said. "It is impossible to accept this loss. " 'No survivors' as Syria- bound Russian jet crashes digitaljournal.com 2016-12-25 09:30 www.digitaljournal.com 3 /5 2.7 16 Photos Of Presidents, First Families And Santa Domenico Montanaro It's Christmas, and Santa Claus just completed his annual, almost unbelievable, trip around the world to drop off presents for children everywhere. But on his way, he's stopped off through the years to hang out with the first family — sometimes, perhaps, there was some mistletoe around. On at least two photographed occasions, first ladies have planted a smooch on Santa's cheek. Here was Barbara Bush (as hubby George H.
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