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President Jacob Zuma arrived in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday for a working visit to review bilateral relations and exchange views on critical regional and global issues with President Vladimir Putin.
Sheremetyevo International Airport has summarized its operating performance for March and Q1 2013. The number of passengers serviced since the beginning of the year has grown by 11.1% over the same period in 2012, reaching 5 million 791 thousand passengers.
As of March 31, 2013, Sheremetyevo International Airport is switching to its new spring/summer flight schedule, which will remain effective through October 26, 2013. In the new season, the partner airlines of Sheremetyevo Airport will establish new flights and increase the frequency of flights along the most popular routes in Russia – encompassing the near and far abroad – and the Airport will offer new services and amenities to passengers and guests alike.
As part of its switch to the summer flight schedule, Air Astana has established flights from Sheremetyevo Airport to Atyrau (the Republic of Kazakhstan). The first scheduled flight was made on April 1, 2013.
MUNICH - Aviareps has been chosen by the Italian carrier Blue Panorama as a General Sales Agent in the Russian Federation.
Beirut: A Syrian Airlines plane carrying more than 30 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the victims of the ongoing conflict in Syria has landed in Damascus, the Russian embassy in Damascus said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, April 15 (RIA Novosti) - Two aircraft sent by the Russian Emergencies Ministry to Belgium following a tourist bus crash in the West European country have landed in Brussels Airport, the ministry said Monday.
A Russian Aircraft carring relief and medical assistance from the Russian people to the Syrian people arrived on Sunday in Damascus International Airport.
Thousands of Polish nationalists rallied in Warsaw on Wednesday, three years after ex-president Lech Kaczynski died in a jet crash in Russia that they insist was an assassination.
Russian carriers Vladivostok Air and Aviacharter-DV have approached Guam’s Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport to discuss launching new services to the Pacific island by the end of 2013, Routes News understands.

