Here's the aftermath video of the same accident that was originally posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR9alAlqo60
And the news story:
http://rt.com/news/plane-vnukovo-airport-moscow-073/
When I lived in Russia, one of the things that I noticed was that people were at that time took more photos and videos than I had seen back home in the states. But, everyday in Russia was an experience. It usually didn't take very long for
something to happen. I don't mean in the context that planes just fall out of the sky, but car accidents, fights, police doing their things, etc.
I lived in a newer styled apartment building, and there was a McDonalds next door. I walked outside one morning to go to the metro, and as pedestrians were crossing the street, a guy in a Mercedes inched further and further into the crowd until finally a younger guy walks by and punches the hood of the car for almost running into him. The driver gets out with the car running, runs around and grabs a set of jumper cables out of the trunk, and chases after the pedestrian swinging the cables. Another pedestrian comes along, does a double-take, then jumps into the running car and takes off. As if this isn't enough, I look over to my left, and there is a police car with two officers in it. They are stuffing their faces with french fries, watching and pointing, but obviously not about to get out of the vehicle.
I've never heard about insurance fraud. AFAIK it takes a police report there the same as it does here. The only difference is one the police show up, how much are you going to pay them to write the report for you? So it wouldn't surprise me, although it would be on a different level that we're used to here.