Are there any flights? Putin flies to Egypt. Will direct communication be resumed for other Russians? Flights for foreigners
Natalya Poklonskaya against Yuri Chaika: the State Duma deputy recorded a special video on the occasion of the Moscow premiere of the film “Matilda”. She criticizes the position of the country's prosecutor general and her former boss, who does not take action on her complaints about the painting by Alexei Uchitel. Poklonskaya also reminded Yuri Chaika about his children’s business - these facts, as you know, were cited by Alexei Navalny in his investigation. A political observer for Kommersant FM believes that the Matilda scandal is gradually becoming a thing of the past, but Poklonskaya is looking for a new niche for herself.
Natalya Poklonskaya accused the Russian Prosecutor General of inaction regarding her complaints regarding the feature film “Matilda”. The deputy lists his complaints: okay, only extremism, so there is a whole bunch of articles - copyright infringement, financial fraud, tax evasion and even deviation from the country's information security doctrine.
In general, we can say that the eight-minute message is no longer about “Matilda”, or rather, not only about “Matilda”. It's more about life and the current political moment. By those who promote the picture of the Teacher, Natalya Poklonskaya means evil. And goodness is humble, praying people who resist all this, fighters for truth, humiliated and insulted. A comparison of cordoned-off cinemas with cultural centers “where Nazi executioners and Banderaites were tried” can perhaps be considered the main thesis of the speech.
The video mentions the children of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika - instead of fighting evil in the form of the film "Matilda", he cares about the happy life and business of his offspring. Headlines appeared: “Poklonskaya cites Navalny’s investigation.” Yes, it seems. Alexey Navalny himself commented on this: “If you throw out the talk about cordoned off cinemas and the holy sovereign, then in general the speech of a dissident turns out to be.”
It is clear that a version is immediately being born about another attack on Yuri Chaika on the eve of the presidential elections. However, for some reason, in this case, the story about another confrontation between the Kremlin towers, as well as about the union of Poklonskaya and Navalny, is hard to believe. Although, of course, anything can happen.
However, it still remains unclear main question: who is promoting Poklonskaya and what forces could be behind her? The famous journalist Maxim Shevchenko dedicated a special video to this on the Internet.
Maxim Shevchenko hints at the world behind the scenes, no more and no less, a global clerical-monarchist party that has decided to pay attention to Russia. And Poklonskaya is only a conductor of her ideas, but not a leader. This is also hard to believe. As well as her alliance with Navalny in the interests of the Kremlin towers.
Although it is noteworthy that Poklonskaya is being rebuilt: “Matilda” is just a movie, there will be a screening - and that’s it, no problem. What then to do, what to do?
And now she is already looking for a new niche in Russian politics - she debates with Ksenia Sobchak, appears as a fighter against corruption and, most importantly, constantly appeals to support groups - to letters addressed to her, of which there are already hundreds of thousands. So it looks like we are dealing with a new and still poorly understood phenomenon. And moreover, it is absolutely unsystematic, falling out of the state scenario, where everyone has their own role.
MOSCOW, October 24 – RIA Novosti/Prime. It will be exactly one year since the introduction of the mutual ban on Tuesday, October 25th. direct flights between Russia and Ukraine. During this time, the parties were unable to sit down at the negotiating table, so experts and political scientists, while assessing the losses of carriers differently, are unanimous on one thing - passengers will not see the Moscow-Kyiv flight schedule on airport boards any time soon.
In Ukraine, they demanded to abandon the Russian language at airportsAll information that is posted at Ukrainian airports or announced through loudspeakers must be in Ukrainian and English languages, said the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladimir Omelyan.Ukraine “closed the sky” for Russian passenger and freight transport from October 25, 2015 - with the beginning winter schedule. The sanctions list included the largest Russian carrier Aeroflot, then Transaero, which was still in a pre-bankrupt state, the Yakutia airline, and the airlines of the S7 group. All of the listed carriers flew charter or regular flights to what became Russian Crimea.
On the same day, Russia introduced mirror measures against Ukrainian airlines. The ban, the Federal Air Transport Agency noted a year ago, will remain in effect until the decision of the Ukrainian authorities regarding Russian airlines will not be cancelled.
However, as the department stated, after the MH17 crash near Donetsk, the vast majority of Russian airlines refused to operate transit flights through Ukrainian airspace for safety reasons, and only a small part of domestic carriers made transit flights through the territory of a neighboring state when necessary.
"Previously, we and Ukraine had a dynamically developing air services market based on the principle" open sky“Unfortunately, we were forced to give an adequate response to the initiative of the Ukrainian side,” recalls Chairman of the Public Council under the Federal Air Transport Agency Pyotr Deinekin.
Victims and winners
The decision on the part of Kyiv hit, first of all, the aviation industry and airports of Ukraine itself, said Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov. According to data from Russian airlines cited by the Federal Air Transport Agency, more than 70% of passengers on all flights between the two states were Ukrainians. Passenger traffic between the two countries for 8 months of 2015 amounted to about 800 thousand people.
“No tragedy happened here, but Ukraine lost a lot. Our airlines are conscientious payers, airport taxes and overflight funds airspace Ukraine was paid regularly, so aviation enterprises Ukraine suffered great losses,” says Deinekin.
Director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management Ruslan Bortnik recalls Ukraine’s losses from transit. “We have lost not only the opportunity to earn money on air travel with Russia, but also part of the transit potential. Many Russians flew to Russia through Ukrainian airports, I think that today we are talking about a tens of percent drop in transit potential, although the number of air passengers traveling to Ukraine this year has increased," the expert said.
Last November, Andrei Pivovarsky, then the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, estimated the losses of the State Enterprise for Air Traffic Services of Ukraine from the ban on transit traffic for Russian airlines at 25-30 million euros per year.
According to the head of the analytical service of the Aviaport agency, Oleg Panteleev, it is quite difficult to accurately estimate the losses of Russian airlines from bans on flights to Ukraine. “Obviously, there are no exact figures (losses - ed.), because airlines were mostly able to quickly revise their route networks and schedules, through this, find other sources of income and opportunities to use their aircraft,” he believes. According to the expert, the losses of carriers are associated, firstly, with a general reduction in the number of flights, and secondly, with the need to fly over territories countries
Not only airlines, but also airports suffered losses. In February of this year, Domodedovo Deputy Director Denis Nuzhdin assessed the losses Russian airports from the suspension of air traffic with Ukraine in the amount of 690 million rubles.
And, for example, the Belarusian airline Belavia, on the contrary, benefited from the cessation of air traffic between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, Panteleev said. “It is this carrier that offers the shortest and fastest option to get from the vast majority of points in Russia to a number of cities in Ukraine,” he said. This air carrier was able to transfer a significant part of passengers traveling on direct flights to its planes with a transfer in Minsk.
Belavia itself reported that immediately after the cessation of air traffic between the two countries, it doubled its passenger traffic on the Minsk-Kyiv line. And in December, the carrier opened a flight to Kharkov.
There is readiness, but no contacts
At the end of October 2015, the State Aviation Service of Ukraine received a letter from the Federal Air Transport Agency with a proposal to hold negotiations on restoring air traffic between the countries, but the Ukrainian agency stated that the position expressed by the Russian Federation is unacceptable for Kyiv.
The Ukrainian side insisted that in order to begin the negotiation process, Russia must stop operating flights to Crimea and pay a fine for flights of Russian airlines over territories where Kyiv has closed airspace.
And in November, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure announced that Kyiv would not allow airlines from the Russian Federation to fly to the country’s airports while they were flying to Crimea.
Over the course of the year, Moscow has repeatedly expressed its readiness for negotiations and compromise. In August, the head of the Ministry of Transport, Maxim Sokolov, once again stated that the Russian Federation is ready to resume dialogue on these issues, both in whole and in parts.
“In the near future, there is absolutely no opportunity to restore these transportation and direct air connections between Ukraine and Russia. Obviously, everything comes down to political ambitions, and the political confrontation that has unfolded between Ukraine and Russia,” says Bortnik.
Deinekin also believes that there will be no progress on this issue in the near future. “Are you asking how long this will last? Unfortunately, for a long time. So until political will is shown, this absurd situation will continue,” he believes.
“The Russian side is open to dialogue on this issue. The Ukrainian side does not enter into official contacts,” the press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport confirmed to RIA Novosti.
“The president recently put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to extend sanctions for another year. This is the answer to the question about the possible resumption of air traffic,” the State Aviation Service of Ukraine answered RIA Novosti’s question.
Since 2015, restrictive measures have been in force against Russian individuals and legal entities in Ukraine. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in October, by his decree, put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on the extension and expansion of the sanctions list in relation to legal and individuals RF. The list has been supplemented by 167 enterprises. In particular, sanctions have been introduced against UTair airlines that limit, partially or completely stop the transit of resources, flights and transportation across the territory of Ukraine.
Are Egyptians waiting for Russian tourists and how many Russians continue to vacation on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, getting there by roundabout routes?
Vladimir Putin. Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/Reuters
On Monday, the Russian President in Cairo will discuss security issues in the Middle East with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. One of the topics of discussion will be the resumption of air traffic between the two countries, reports RBC.
According to the publication’s source in the Ministry of Transport, air travel between Russia and Egypt (although specifically to Cairo, and not to resort towns) may resume before New Year holidays. Another close to Russian Ministry transport source said that the head of this department, Maxim Sokolov, will also fly to Egypt on December 11.
Natalia Piletskaya guide from Hurghada “Now we are waiting for Vladimir Putin to appear on the 11th. We all know about this. We hope that at least the issue regarding air traffic will be resolved. There are tourists, of course. Ukraine flew and still flies. Belarus too. But this is not only insufficient, it is generally the minimum. This cannot be taken into account. The Germans are flying. A lot of China. All countries fly except ours. So we're really, really looking forward to it. We need Russians. Of course, you can’t go anywhere without them. Our main tourist flow is 60% from Russia. We are waiting for ours, we can’t go anywhere without them. There are not many who fly through Belarus. It is very expensive. All of Russia flies through Turkey. This is the very first option that our Russia uses. Tourists loved Egypt, so they fly, nothing stops them. But they fly through something: either through Greece, or even through Poland. But the main flow goes through Turkey, so Turkish Airlines Now they make a lot of money from us.”
Also waiting for the Russians is a guide from Hurghada, Mohamed Amon:
Mohamed Amon guide from Hurghada “We are waiting very hard, and for a long time. We will be very glad if air traffic resumes. We have been ready for this for a long time. We welcome all tourists who come from all over the world. Of course, compared to what we had before the cessation of air traffic between our two states, this, of course, is a great damage to our economy. In principle, tourists from Russia are now coming, but through other countries. But not in such quantities as it was before the cessation of air traffic.”
They come from Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia. Lots of Chinese. Wait Russian tourists The guide in Egypt, Mustafa Elwani, has already stopped:
Mustafa Elwani guide in Egypt "From different countries tourists are coming from all over the world. Lots of Chinese. Ukrainians also began to come more often. And travel agencies offer tours cheaper than before. I stopped waiting for a solution regarding Russian tourists; two years have already passed. But everything will pass someday, most likely after the end of the World Cup, which will be soon.”
At the same time, at the beginning of this week, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia reported that direct flights between the Russian Federation and Egypt are unlikely to resume next year.
At the same time, the Egyptian side hopes for a different outcome, since according to the results of the draw, the Russian and Egyptian national teams were placed in the same group and will play each other in St. Petersburg on June 19.
Meanwhile, a number of experts in the tourism industry do not rule out that Moscow will meet Cairo halfway and regular flights between the capitals of the two countries will be resumed with summer schedule next year. Or Russia may allow charter flights from Egypt with football fans.
A ban on flights from Russia to Egypt was introduced after the crash of a Kogalymavia plane over Sinai as a result of a terrorist attack. 224 people died in it.
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