Numb with grief, a young woman wept and called for her mother at a funeral in a small village in northwestern Russia for one of the victims of the plane crash in Egypt. Several dozen friends and relatives gathered on Thursday at a cemetery in the small village of Sitnya to bid farewell to Nina Lushchenko, one of the 224 people killed in the disaster, at a ceremony bathed in autumn sunlight. The 60-year-old school dinner lady from the city of Veliky Novgorod was among the first victims of Russia's deadliest aviation tragedy to be laid to rest at ceremonies across Russia, where hundreds...
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