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The Uzbek President Islam Karimov expressed his frank condolences and extended words of sympathy to relatives and friends of accident victims.
The Yak-42 plane, carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team players, crashed near Yaroslavl on Wednesday, 7 September 2011.
Two of the 45 people on board survived but remain in a critical condition: crew member Alexander Sizov and hockey player Alexander Galimov.
Three days of mourning have been declared in the Yaroslavl Region.