The Russian state news agency RIA said Friday that Russia has conducted its first test flight from Moscow to the recently renovated airport in Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
After being shut down during a war in the 1990s, RIA announced that long-distance flights to Sukhumi were starting up again for the first time in thirty years.
According to the report, regular passenger flights from Moscow to Abkhazia are anticipated to start operating in May.
After defeating Georgia in a five-day conflict, Russia recognized Abkhazia and another breakaway province, South Ossetia, as independent entities in 2008. It supports their economy and keeps military installations in both areas.
Uzbekistan has eased parts of its extremism legislation following criticism from UN rights experts, while retaining broad state powers over materia...
Armenia is preparing to export goods to Azerbaijan in the near future as the two countries move to expand bilateral trade, Prime Minister Nikol Pas...
Kazakhstan’s oil exports through its main pipeline route fell sharply in July after Black Sea disruptions, as neighbouring Kyrgyzstan faced r...
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has increased the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab, raising fears that instability in both waterways could trigger a wider global energy and trade crisis.
Flights at Catania airport in Sicily will remain suspended until early Friday as ash from Mount Etna continues to disrupt air travel, following hundreds of cancellations and diversions over the past week.
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over the strategic waterway and insisting it will not reopen until Washington fulfils its commitments under an interim deal.
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
Russia has accused Ukraine of threatening global grain supplies after recent strikes on Black Sea agricultural infrastructure, while Moscow carried out a new overnight attack on Ukraine’s major Danube port of Izmail.
A former Syrian security officer convicted in Austria of abusing detainees under Bashar al-Assad has returned to Syria while appealing his eight-year prison sentence, according to four sources and messages reviewed by Reuters.
Uzbekistan has eased parts of its extremism legislation following criticism from UN rights experts, while retaining broad state powers over materials and organisations deemed extremist.
Armenia is preparing to export goods to Azerbaijan in the near future as the two countries move to expand bilateral trade, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said.
Kazakhstan’s oil exports through its main pipeline route fell sharply in July after Black Sea disruptions, as neighbouring Kyrgyzstan faced rising fuel prices amid reduced supplies from Russia.
Former Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pakayin has called on Tehran to ratify the Caspian Sea convention, arguing that doing so would safeguard Iran’s legal and regional interests.
You can download the AnewZ application from Play Store and the App Store.
What is your opinion on this topic?
Leave the first comment