More detail:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.planecrash/
A passenger jet carrying 34 passengers and eight crew members in the Tula region crashed about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Moscow, the ministry said.
Witnesses reported seeing the plane explode before it crashed, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
The second plane, carrying 44 passengers and eight crew members, went down about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia, government-run Ria Novosti reported.
The first plane disappeared from radar at 10:56 p.m. (2:56 p.m. ET), the news agency said.
The Tupolev-134 had taken off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport and was en route to Volgograd, in southern Russia.
The second plane, a Tupolev-154, disappeared from radar at 10:59 p.m. (2:59 p.m. ET) after having taken off from the same airport en route to Sochi, a tourist resort on the Black Sea in southern Russia, the ministry spokeswoman reported.
I remember reading in assorted articles, papers and analysis that the "Next 9/11" would occur ~60 days prior to the election and that it would be preceeded by attacks in Europe. Anyone else remember this (I didn't think to book-mark them unfortunately).