MGIMO announced a forecast for the imminent launch of Minsk-Simferopol flights
Belarus still does not operate air flights to Crimea due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Kirill Koktysh, associate professor of the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO University of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated this in an interview with the BelRos TV YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Flights are regulated not by aviation authorities, but by medical authorities. Due to the pandemic, each flight is approved at the very top. Aeroflot is the executor of the will of Rospotrebnadzor. Sanitary restrictions are the main factor,” Koktysh said.
In his opinion, the issue of flights to Crimea from Minsk will be resolved in the near future.
“It is clear that sooner or later this will all be settled. And flights will appear, and communications will be built. Moreover, bonuses will be extracted. Crimea is part of the Union State - both Russia and Belarus, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said. So in the future everything will be arranged in the most reasonable way,” Koktysh said.
In March 2020, the head of the Belarusian community of Crimea, Roman Chegrinets, appealed to the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with a request to organize direct flights and trains between Minsk and Simferopol, but received answers from the Belavia and Belarusian Railway companies, which reported that they did not see an economic feasibility of organizing new flights.
A year later, the permanent representative of Crimea to the President of the Russian Federation, Georgy Muradov, raised the same question with the Belarusian authorities.
In June, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced that the issue of air traffic between Minsk and Simferopol was being worked out.
Until 2014, about half a million Belarusians visited Crimea annually. Now their registration is difficult, since they, as citizens of the Union State, enter the peninsula without control.
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