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What happened on 8 January 2020 near Tehran?
Summary
A look back at a day marked by an air disaster in Iran and the inauguration of a gas pipeline link.
What did 8 January 2020 bring for Ukraine and its neighbours? It was a day of two very different events, one of them a tragedy.
Near Tehran, in Iran, an aircraft of the airline Ukraine International Airlines (MAU) crashed. As reported at the time, 176 people were killed.
On the same day, the heads of state of Turkey, Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria formally inaugurated the TurkStream gas pipelines.
The two events were unrelated, but both drew attention across the region. The crash was a loss of life on a large scale for a Ukrainian carrier, while the pipeline ceremony involved four countries' leaders.
