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Salvatore Esposito, a Swiss citizen of Italian descent, faces premeditated murder charges in the death of Pyotr Mikeychik, a Russian researcher, who was killed in a collision between the M/V Heleni and the research ship Thetis. The collision occurred in heavy fog on August 3. Click Read More for link to full story. From Tass: ROME, August 7 (Itar-Tass) -- The crew and passengers of the research ship the Thetis, who survived a collision with a freighter off the island of Sicily on August 3 paid the last respects to their Russian fellow researcher Pyotr Mikeychik on Monday. The brief ceremony at the office of the Mazara del Vallo seaport was attended by coast guard officers, sailors, divers, rescue workers, fishermen from neighboring villages and officials
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