Russia began burying some of those killed in a weekend plane crash in the skies above Egypt, an event that could affect strong public support for the Kremlin’s air strikes in Syria if it turns out to have been an Islamist bomb attack.
In St. Petersburg, the intended destination of the doomed Metrojet Airbus A321, friends and loved ones bade farewell to 31-year-old Alexei Alexeyev, an employee of a heating and ventilation equipment company, who had been returning from a holiday in Sharm al-Sheikh.