Russian General who gave Putin the middle finger on board...
General Gennady Troshev was also listed as a passenger, a former Presidential advisor on Cossack affairs and fired by Putin in 2002.
He was also infamous during the Chechen conflict and was supposedly listed as a target by Chechen extremists.
Troshev had bluntly refusel to accept a transfer from the high-profile North Caucasus Military District to a far-flung command in Siberia in 2002. Putin signed a decree removing Troshev from his post after the colonel general was shown on national television defying Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov's "offer" to accept command of the Siberian Military District.
Neither the Chechens nor Putin have claimed responsibility. My thoughts with the family of the pax and crew.