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 COON COUNTRY: RUSSIA, UKRAINE
 SUBJ SUBJ:     Russia: Legal investigation into air disaster to be
 completed in Ukraine
 SOUR SOURCE:   Moscow Russian TV RTR in Russian 1300 GMT 16 Oct 01
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 [FBIS Translated Excerpt]      [Presenter] Criminal proceedings
 against the top military leadership of Ukraine are possible as a
 result of the investigation into the Tu-154 airline disaster over
 the Black Sea.  [omitted: parliament backed this initiative today -
 rpt]
 Russian Deputy Prosecutor-General Sergey Fridinskiy said today
 that the investigation into the blowing up of the Sibir airlines
 plane which led to the death of 78 people will be completed by the
 Ukrainian courts. As he put it, the state commission has every
 reason to believe that the Tu-154 was brought down by a missile and
 the relevant evidence has already been passed on to Kiev.
 *    [Fridinskiy, at news conference] An unidentified flying object
 whose trajectory crossed with that of the aircraft was picked up on
 *radar. No-one tracked the movement of this unidentified flying
 *object in full because that wasn't one of the set objectives. The
 work is still continuing and much of the back-up investigation will
 be carried out by our team and then I think the issue of handing
 the criminal proceedings to Ukraine will come up because the
 investigation, the legal investigation will have to be seen through
 to its conclusion there.
 [Description of Source: Moscow Russian TV RTR in Russian -- wholly
 state-owned TV network that generally promotes official government
 policies in both domestic and foreign affairs; broadcasts reach
 over 93 percent of Russia's viewing audience]
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