“This measure will be applied to all Russian airlines and will remain in effect until the bans imposed on Ukrainian airlines by the Russian Federation’s aviation authorities are lifted”.
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Viktor Shur, a Russian national, was convicted Wednesday of treason for reportedly gathering classified information on a Russian Defense Ministry facility on the orders of the Ukrainian border service, the Bryansk regional court said Thursday in an online statement.
The Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers agreed to pricing and supply terms for a winter supply package between Gazprom and Naftogaz last month (see ESGM 28 September 2015).
“Ukraine did everything possible to show its worldwide partners that we do our best and that we are able to live up to our promises”, Yaresko said, adding, “I think it means that global partners should unanimously support us”.
16 blacklisted Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot and three other state-held companies that offer regular flights to the war-torn former Soviet republic. “Secondly, there needs to be a full amnesty, there needs to be free elections and how they are to be structured that the Ukrainian leadership is obliged to agree with Donbas in line with the Minsk agreements”, Lavrov said during his speech in the Russian lower house of parliament.
According to the Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov about 70 percent of passengers flying from Ukraine to Russia and back in 2015 were Ukrainian citizens.
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The minister pointed out that the Ukrainian sanction list included 29 Russian airlines, 27 of which had illegally flown to occupied Crimea and two Ukrainian airlines nationalized by the so-called government of temporarily occupied Crimea.
