Moscow - An Aeroflot Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed near Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 people on board including 21 foreign nationals.

The Russian airliner reportedly caught fire in the air and lost control as it readied to land in the city of Perm early morning Sunday.

The wreckage burned just metres from a residential community and debris blocked a section of Russia's Trans-Siberian railway.

Television showed firefighters and investigators sifting through the wreckage which was spread over about four square kilometres, officials said.

Investigators have recovered the aircraft's two black box recorders, which they hope will clarify the cause of the accident.

Moscow, Sept 14 : At least 88 people died when a Boeing-737 airliner they were flying in crashed in the Sibera region. No casualties were reported on the ground as the plane reportedly crashed in open fields.

Around 21 of those dead were foreigners.

The plane was flying from Moscow to the Siberian city of Perm when it crashed in an unpopulated area as it was landing, said the agencies, The Telegraph quoted Aeroflot as saying in a statement.

“The Boeing-737 carried 82 passengers on board, including seven children, and six crew... All passengers were killed,” added the statement.

Moscow - More than 20 foreigners were among the 82 passengers and five crew members on the Boeing 737 airliner that crashed in Perm, Russia, early Sunday, the Aeroflot airline reported.

Sited by the Interfax news agency, Aeroflot said that nine Azerbaijanis, 5 Ukrainians, and a person each from Germany, Switzerland, France, Latvia, Italy, the US and Turkey.

Russian officials initially reported that no non-Russians had been aboard the plane, which was flying from Moscow to Perm near the Ural Mountains. There were no survivors.

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Moscow - An airliner flying from Moscow to Perm,

Moscow - Russia has withdrawn its last troops from western Georgia in accordance with a deal agreed with the European Union, reports said Saturday.

Russian soldiers on Saturday left the Georgian Black Sea port of Poti as well as five checkpoints between Poti and Senaki, Georgian media reports quoted the Georgian authorities and witnesses as saying.

Russian television showed the troops dismantling checkpoints at Poti before leaving in trucks. Around 150 Russian soldiers and ten tanks had been stationed in the port, locals said.

"This proves that the Russian state can strictly keep agreements," Russian Foreign Office spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told the Interfax news agency.