Last February, images of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting in the pilot’s seat of a Russian Tupolev Tu-160M long-range strategic bomber have gone viral across Russian social media. Putin was ...

Speculation was mounting Friday that Russia's military could have had a role in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that ...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia’s Federal Air Traffic Agency said the crash happened after the plane had hit a flock of birds. Apparently, those birds had been armed with explosives ...

The claim is false. Multiple shrapnel holes in the plane’s fuselage and its altitude at the time of incident contradict the bird theory. Azerbaijan accused Russia of hitting the passenger jet ...

Russian aviation authorities said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had hit a flock of birds. But some experts cast doubt on that ...

Russian air defenses, rather than a bird strike, likely caused the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight, killing 38 ...

as Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, suggested the bird strike theory. But a U.S. official told CBS News there were early indications a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck ...