Sapsan high-speed train launched

Moscow: Russia on Thursday unveiled its first high-speed train linking Moscow and Saint Petersburg, which will travel on a route targeted in a deadly bombing just last month.

The Sapsan, a red and grey train with a price tag of hundreds of millions of euros, set off from Moscow's Leningrad station at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) on its first commercial run.

Image: Train drivers are seen in the cabin before the maiden journey of the Sapsan high-speed train from Moscow to St. Petersburg, in Moscow

Text: AFP

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