News archive on the topic "air travel"

Moldova will restore air traffic with Russia only after the transfer of all new regions, including Crimea, to Ukraine. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, Mihai Popsoi, stated this in an interview with the RTVI television channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, Russia is currently an aggressor country, and its air traffic with many countries has been interrupted. Including with Moldova. This, of course, creates difficulties...

Ukraine is entering into formal negotiations with American and European regulators on the resumption of air traffic. This, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexey Kubrakov, who said last week that consultations had begun with American and European safety regulators on the opening of aviation space. “It is impossible to carry out international air travel without the approval of two regulators – European and American –...

Ukraine still cannot afford to resume civil flights in all regions except Transcarpathia. Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Natalya Vlasova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The presenter asked to comment on rumors about the possible opening of civil flights in Ukraine. “An airport can be opened only in one region – Transcarpathia. Let me remind you that there is no...

Russia urgently needs to revive small civil air traffic in hard-to-reach regions - otherwise in the future it will have to give up territories. The Chairman of the Aviation Commission of the Public Council of Rosnadzor, Honored Pilot of the USSR Oleg Smirnov, stated this on air on the Internet channel “Red Lines,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The revival of aviation is a geopolitical issue for our country, you can’t say less, it’s so...

Aircraft insurance in combat conditions will be too expensive, which will lead to high ticket prices, and this will become another factor irritating the population, so the authorities do not initiate the opening of airports in Western Ukraine. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on the Internet channel “Yes it is,” as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “There is a version that the Boryspil airport will be opened...

For the fact that Georgia has resumed air traffic with Russia, sanctions should be imposed against this Caucasian country. Former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valery Chaly stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Chaly, the Georgian leadership acted “incorrectly” in relation to Ukraine, so Kyiv reserves the right to “serious actions.” "IN…

The resumption of air traffic between Moscow and Tbilisi allegedly threatens the destruction of Georgian statehood. The editor-in-chief of the Georgian online magazine SOVA (published in Russian, but takes an openly anti-Russian position) Marta Ardashelia stated this, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports to the anti-Russian propaganda publication Novoye Vremya. According to her, the Georgian government behaves “like traitors and traitors to its own country.” She was asked what...

The first flight from Moscow, which landed in Tbilisi on Friday after the resumption of air traffic between Georgia and Moscow, was greeted by film crews from pro-Western TV channels. They were given the task of provoking passengers by infuriating them with questions about “Russia’s occupation of Georgian territory” and “Russian aggression in Ukraine.” However, the provocateurs received a worthy response, the leader of the Socialist...

Georgia took the risk of Western sanctions by giving permission to the Russian airline Azimut to fly. This is reported by the correspondent of PolitNavigator, European Pravda, a subsidiary portal of the anti-Russian propaganda online publication Ukrainska Pravda. “It is noteworthy that Tbilisi is seriously assessing the prospect of imposing sanctions against them for opening flights from the Russian Federation. It is no coincidence that the maintenance of Russian aircraft at Tbilisi airport will be handled by a company created...

A public delegation from Georgia arrived for the third recent meeting at the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs. Contacts intensified after the decision of the Russian President to cancel the visa regime and resume flights with Tbilisi. A member of the delegation, the leader of the socialist movement of Georgia, Temur Pipia, well known to readers of PolitNavigator from his reports from Tbilisi for our portal, spoke about this.…

By his decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin today lifted the ban on air transportation from Russia to Georgia, which had been in effect since June 2019. Also, from May 15, Russia will abolish the visa regime for Georgian citizens. With the exception of those who come to the Russian Federation “for the purpose of carrying out work activities or for a period of more than 90 days, including for the purposes of...

Serious disputes flared up again in Georgia after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope at a press conference for the restoration of air traffic between Moscow and Tbilisi in the foreseeable future. Moreover, President Salome Zurabishvili was categorically against this prospect, although at one time she was elected as an alternative to the Saakashists, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. When Lavrov spoke about the possibility of resuming...

The Federal Air Transport Agency has extended the ban on the operation of airports in the South of Russia until May 19. Most likely, Crimea will enter the high holiday season with the only access to the peninsula via the Crimean Bridge, and holidaymakers need to worry about train and bus tickets in advance, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Experts advise not to count on the resumption of air traffic until the military administration completely comes under the control...

Serbia becomes the beneficiary of the aviation industry in Europe. Alexander Losev, a member of the presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of the Russian Federation, stated this on the air of the Vesti FM radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Belgrade is becoming an aviation hub. Serbian airlines will fly here and will fly all over the world. Belgrade is becoming a hub for us and for everyone else's trips to…