OREANDA-NEWS. August 25, 2010.  Dmitry Medvedev sent his condolences to President of China Hu Jintao following a plane crash in Yichun that claimed many lives.

The President’s telegram said, in particular:

"I express my profound condolences over the many lives lost in the crash of a passenger plane at Yichun in Heilongjiang Province on August 24.

Please pass on my sincere words of sympathy to the victims’ families and my wishes for a speedy recovery to all who were injured in this tragedy."