The national rail operator has had its call for an appeal to the findings of the Dubrovka rail disaster inquest upheld. Momentum, the part-state funded company responsible for operating the high-speed rail line ‘Delta’ where the crash took place last year, said that it had been ‘wrongly blamed’ for the death of 140 people. The original inquest, which reported last summer that the company had broken health and safety regulations, cleared the manufacturer of the rail unit and the Ministry of Transport of any wrongdoing. But the appeal lodged earlier this year, has now turned attention to the Minister responsible at the time. Kristina Rudakov, now the Minister for Communications and Media is facing calls to resign after Judge Shovolev today said that there had been accusations of a ‘fundamental and widespread whitewash.’ A new inquest is to begin on Tuesday.
Rail Appeal Turns Pressure Up On Rudakov
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